If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

Fucking obviously they will…

You start crashing cars into random people and hauling them off to a mystery location, and next time someone sees you on main Street, you’ll be lucky if they take you somewhere.

A small rural area, everybody is only like one degree of separation from each other. Those insular isolated communities generate the fear of outsider that Republicans exploit to get elected.

Feds start showing up in masks and rounding people up, well, that’s probably not how trump wants to reduce the number of federal employees, but it would do it thru death and attrition sure enough. And they can’t count on out of town cops with no connection to the citizens like in cities. The half dozen cops have all the same ties to the community.

They’ll as likely to go into rural areas as they are to go into gang territory.

ICE and smoke don’t mix, that’s why they’re exclusively going after the people unlikely to fight back.