2025-08-29 - POWER: What, if Anything, Does the Cracker Barrel Saga Mean?

"As the mayor of this city, I can tell you that Chicagoans are not calling for military occupation. We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence. It is racist, it is immoral, it is unholy, and it is not the way to drive violence down." - Brandon Johnson (Mayor of Chicago)
"We believe that the National Guard and the military occupation is the first step into rounding black people up and putting them in detainment camps here in Washington, D.C. and around the United States of America." - Jonathan L. Jackson (U.S. Congressman)
"Republican friends and fellow citizens who profess to be active Christians, I remind them that DEI is the very foundation of the Christian church." - Bill Owen (DNC Committee Member)
"We don't back down. We don't back down. We don't back down. With all due respect, if they go low, we don't go high. We take them to the mud and choke them out." - Abdul El-Sayed (Politician and Activist)
"And we have a message to Donald Trump. Immigrants don't diminish America, they are America." - Amy Klobuchar (U.S. Senator)
"It is preposterous that they would send him to Africa, to a country where he doesn't even speak the language." - Rachel Sandoval-Moshenberg (Attorney for Kilmar Abrego-Garcia)
"I have heard about a whole lot of hate that's being directed at our trans community. Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity." - Jacob Frey (Mayor of Minneapolis)
"And don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying." - Jacob Frey (Mayor of Minneapolis)
"Yes, this person was mentally ill. It's not the trans part. It's the part that he was absolutely, completely evil." - Lisa Kennedy Montgomery (Fox News Host)
"And we have sued them for gender-affirming care. Yes, we are not going to scapegoat our transgender community." - Keith Ellison (Minnesota Attorney General)