Yeah Blake, let's take the "Chicago stuff."

ICE and CBP landed a Blackhawk helicopter on an apartment building in the middle of the night, deploying their paramilitary police into the building, and then proceeded to kick down every door in the building, including apartments that housed only US citizens. Residents—American citizens—were held in zip ties for up to 3 hours while federal authorities ascertained their immigration status. They did this without individualized warrants, without probable cause for each person detained, in violation of the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution.

Your justification? That some people "were harassing federal officers." But that's not how constitutional protections work. Proximity to suspected criminals doesn't suspend Fourth Amendment rights for everyone in a building. The Fourth Amendment requires individualized probable cause. That's not my just my interpretation. That's basic constitutional law that has existed since the Founding. You know, given the Founder’s strong disapprobation for the concept of general warrants, given their experience under British rule?

That you sit here and argue the federal government may have colorable and defensible reasons for warrantless mass detentions of American citizens raises serious questions about whatever objectivity you think you represent.

Whether you're a useful idiot or willfully blind because you sell your written wares to an audience that wants to be lied to is beside the point for me.

You don't represent truth. You represent a faction of American society less concerned with fidelity to the constitutional republic in which you live, and more concerned with the maintenance of power and influence by a dangerous clique of wealthy plutocrats.

Richardson isn't perfect. But she's right about the pattern. And your piece doesn't just fail to engage that pattern—it actively works to delegitimize anyone who names it clearly.

The debate offer still stands. Defend your framework publicly, or admit it doesn't survive scrutiny.