I’m Done Watching MAGA Blame Immigrants While America Burns
A noun, a verb, and blame the immigrants.
Last week, we witnessed the horrific shooting of two National Guardsmen in DC. And right on cue, the MAGA movement seized it as another excuse to attack immigrants because the shooter was an asylum seeker—because that’s what they do.
Every problem in America, no matter what it is, they find a way to blame immigrants. It’s their go-to scapegoat—a stale, fear-driven lie Donald Trump and Stephen Miller weaponize to shove their agenda ahead. Because at the core of all this isn’t immigration—it’s violence, it’s cowardice, and it’s a political movement terrified of telling the damn truth about either. And I’m sick of it.
Every time they point the finger at immigrants, they’re distracting from the real causes of violence—and letting the actual problems rot. That’s the part that makes me furious. We can’t fix what we refuse to name.
This country has a gun violence crisis. A mental health crisis. A crisis of disaffected men, spiraling without help, turning violent. An economy that’s spiraling down. And we don’t have nearly enough people—Democrats or Republicans—willing to say that out loud, let alone do something about it.
And instead of leading, instead of leveling with people about what’s actually driving this violence, this administration hides behind the same tired bullshit. It’s easier to lie than to govern.
Trump’s approval is in the toilet because he’s done nothing to make life better for everyday Americans. People are exhausted, frustrated, and getting gaslit by an administration insisting things are great when everyone knows they’re not. Voters are over the excuses. They want real solutions that actually matter.
But ask a MAGA influencer or a Republican politician about inflation? Immigrants. Housing? Immigrants. Violence? Immigrants. It’s the only card they’ve got. A noun, a verb, and blame the immigrants. It’s pathetic. It’s disgusting. And I know I’m not the only one who’s sick of this shit.
I’m also fed up with the blame game that breaks out online after every shooting. Influencers chasing clicks. Everyone racing to control the narrative. MAGA blames Democrats. Democrats blame Republicans. Performative garbage.
I don’t think this shooting is Trump’s fault because the Guard was deployed on a mission I disagreed with. It’s his fault because he refused to address the actual problems that fuel this kind of violence. And no, it’s not the Democrats’ fault for calling out Trump’s unlawful orders last week, either. That’s BS.
There’s no meaningful action on the federal level on gun violence in America. What happened to these Guardsmen—one murdered, one still fighting for his life—is horrific. Just like what happened to Charlie Kirk. Just like the mass shooting in Stockton this weekend. Just like the attack on those kids at the Catholic church in Minnesota. Just like what happened to Melissa Hortman and her husband. Over and over and over again.
And we’ve already moved on. The fact that I’m even writing this feels outdated—five days too late, buried under a holiday weekend.
But screw that. I’m sending it anyway. Because I’m tired of forgetting. We’ve gone numb. And when the shooter is a white man? Crickets. When the shooter fits a profile conservatives refuse to acknowledge—let’s be real, most mass shooters walking into schools and churches are disaffected white men—they do absolutely nothing.
They’ll toss out empty platitudes about mental health. They’ll scold Democrats for “blaming guns.” And then? Nothing.
Let me be clear: I don’t blame guns. I’m a gun owner myself. I have a concealed carry license in Illinois. Got it after the death threats started—after Laura Loomer threatened me and my son.
The problem isn’t the guns themselves. It’s how easy it is for unstable people to get their hands on them. We know this. Our representatives know this. And Republicans don’t want to fix that. Too many Democrats don’t either. They just recycle the same stale talking points and finger-pointing. No one’s actually trying to solve the problem at the federal level.
Here’s my message to every politician and pundit peddling excuses: Shut up and get to work. Stop pointing fingers at immigrants, stop pretending hashtags are action, stop hiding behind talking points. Do your damn jobs. Fix what you were elected to fix. Because Americans are done waiting.
We need an all-of-the-above approach. Because the same conditions behind the DC shooting? They’re the same ones behind Charlie Kirk’s murder. The Minnesota shooting. The shooting of Melissa Hortman—a name Republicans won’t even say, even to this day.
It’s all the same issues.
We need to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people.
We need to build a real mental health system—one that actually helps people before they break.
We need to secure soft spaces—our schools, our churches, our neighborhoods.
I’ll talk about anything in the pursuit of ending this madness. But I won’t use immigrants as scapegoats. I won’t use trans people as scapegoats, like MAGA world did after the Catholic church shooting. I won’t scapegoat gun owners or anyone else just to score cheap engagement.
Every morning when I drop my son off at school, I worry: is today the day violence comes for him—or someone I love?
That fear is destabilizing.
It’s national trauma. And we’ve grown so numb, we act like it’s someone else’s problem.
But no one in America is safe from this. There’s no space untouched by this violence.
So here’s where we go from here: We tell the truth. We stop letting fearmongers set the terms of the debate. We demand leaders who will actually do something—about guns, about mental health, about the men slipping through the cracks and turning violent. And we take responsibility for each other, too. For our schools, our neighborhoods, our kids. Because no one is coming to save us unless we force them to.
I’m done waiting. You should be too.
Until we act—until we force action—this violence will keep defining us. I refuse to accept that. And you should too.
If you think immigrants are the problem while billionaires rake in record profits … you’ve already drank the MAGA kool aid
Every time I hear myself repeating something I've read, I wonder if it's the beginning of a new talking-point. The most visceral feeling about Trump that I've ever had is the one when I first saw him on The Apprentice: this guy is a fraud. Everything since simply bears out my original reaction to him. I'm eternally grossed out that people vie for his attention and get giddy when he looks their way. WTF do they see?