Texas has accounted for 25% of all ICE arrests since enforcement ramped up. The state has processed thousands upon thousands of deportations. No riots. No mob violence against federal officers. No churches stormed during worship services.

Minnesota represents less than 1% of ICE arrests. And Minneapolis is on fire.

How do you explain that gap?

The answer has nothing to do with immigration policy and everything to do with where Americans get their information.

What the Polling Actually Shows

At Cygnal, we recently surveyed voters on whether the Trump administration’s deportation efforts have gone too far, are about right, or haven’t gone far enough.

The results: 50% said too far, 48% said about right or not far enough. That’s a statistical tie. A country split down the middle.

But if you only consumed legacy media coverage, you’d assume 80% of Americans are horrified by what’s happening. You’d think the deportation efforts represent some unprecedented crisis of conscience for the nation.

They don’t.

Nearly half the country supports the policy or wants it to go further. You just wouldn’t know that from watching the evening news.

The real divide isn’t about what Americans believe. It’s about where they get the information that shapes those beliefs.

Inside the Information Bubbles

The data gets interesting when you cross-reference policy views with media consumption patterns.

Among voters who believe deportation efforts have gone “too far,” 51% get their news primarily from national broadcast television: NBC, ABC, CBS. Compare that to 36% of all voters and just 14% of those who think enforcement hasn’t gone far enough.

The “too far” crowd also over-indexes on newspaper consumption compared to the general voter population. These are the legacy media institutions, the ones that dominated American information for decades.

On the flip side, voters who believe deportation efforts haven’t gone far enough slightly over-index on cable news (45% vs. 40% overall) and dramatically over-index on X, formerly Twitter (16% vs. 9% overall).

The “about right” middle? They’re slightly more likely to get news from cable and Facebook than the average voter. No real drastic differences outside the fact they they also don’t get as much of their news from legacy media.

What emerges is a clear pattern: liberals cluster heavily around broadcast television and print newspapers, while conservatives spread across cable, social media, and newer digital platforms.

These groups are consuming different facts, different story selections, different framings of what matters … and what doesn’t.

The Amplification Machine

As said at the beginning, Minnesota represents less than 1% of ICE enforcement activity, but it’s receiving wall-to-wall national coverage. Every confrontation, every protest, every dramatic standoff gets the full treatment—helicopter shots, breathless correspondents, the works.

Texas is processing 25 times the enforcement activity with minimal national attention. Why? Because compliance doesn’t generate clicks. Orderly deportations don’t drive ratings. A state that implements federal policy without mass unrest isn’t a story anyone wants to tell.

More importantly, it doesn’t make Trump look bad in their minds like Minneapolis does.

The editorial choice to focus on Minnesota is about feeding an existing narrative to an audience that wants that narrative confirmed, not informing the public.

And the consequences are tangible. When broadcast networks run continuous coverage of “resistance” to immigration enforcement, they’re sending a signal to activists in other cities: this is how you get attention. This is how you become part of the story. This is how you “fight Trump.”

The coverage doesn’t just reflect the violence. It incentivizes it.

The Death of Shared Reality

For most of American history, we argued about policy while agreeing on basic facts. Democrats and Republicans watched the same evening news, read the same wire service reports, saw the same footage. They disagreed about what to do, not about what was happening.

That’s over.

And I wrote about in “America’s Emotional Divide,” we’ve entered an era where Americans increasingly inhabit separate factual universes. The “too far” voter and the “not far enough” voter are watching different incidents, hearing different statistics, encountering different human-interest stories designed to trigger different emotional responses.

When I conduct focus groups, I see this constantly. Voters will cite “facts” that are genuinely news to voters on the other side—not because anyone is lying, but because their individual media ecosystems simply never surfaced that information.

This is what called tribal epistemology. Your tribe determines not just your values but your evidence. What counts as a credible source, a significant event, a representative example—all of it filters through group identity before it reaches individual judgment.

What’s Actually at Stake

The Minneapolis situation illustrates the real danger. You have a city tearing itself apart over enforcement activity that represents a statistical rounding error nationally. You have activists storming churches, attacking federal officers, setting fires. And the coverage of that chaos generates more chaos elsewhere.

Meanwhile, the state handling a quarter of all enforcement activity does so with minimal drama. But nobody’s running prime-time specials on “How Texas Implemented Immigration Policy without Burning Down.”

The question for us is straightforward: Are you going to let your media diet determine your reality? Or are you going to actively seek out primary data, diverse sources, and information that challenges your existing beliefs?

Democracy requires a shared factual foundation. When half the country thinks we’re in a humanitarian crisis and half thinks we’re finally enforcing laws that went ignored for decades—and both sides can cite “evidence” for their position—we have a collective epistemological breakdown.

The information bubble doesn’t just distorting immigration. Everything is distorted. And the only people who can pop it are the ones willing to step outside their comfortable media habits and ask what they might be missing.

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Strict comparisons between contemporary events and personalities and their historical analogues are compromised by the fact that every circumstance and individual is unique. Each moment has its unrepeatable combination of characteristics that defy a breezy 1:1 comparison.

Having said this, there are benefits in comparing past patterns and tendencies in order to gain perspective regarding controversies today. One of the most valid comparisons can be made between today’s United States and Ancient Rome.

As we in the Western World descend from Rome, it is not surprising to find many details that lend themselves to close comparison. The rise and fall of its Republic matters because our Founding Fathers closely imitated Rome. We inherited many of Rome’s strengths and weaknesses. We Americans must understand what destroyed the Roman Republic if we wish to avoid succumbing to the same loss of liberty.

The rise of Rome’s Empire and Christianity happened nearly side-by-side. As the United States broadly retains a Judeo-Christian mindset, we should understand how Christianity triumphed over three hundred years of intensifying persecution to ultimately become the Imperium’s official religion, transforming the Roman World and beyond.

Indeed, we have much to learn from the rise and fall of the Roman Republic, the rise of Christianity, and the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. One such insight involves trying to intuit what epoch of Roman history is most closely comparable to our own. This exercise offers perspective on how modern trends interact by seeing how analogous factors played out to the benefit or detriment of Rome’s people, society, and stability.

To me, the Presidencies of Donald Trump most fully compare with the Imperium of Septimius Severus from A.D. 193–211. If this analogy has validity, it means that we Americans have entered a new and harsher phase of history.

Like our Golden Age from 1945 through 2001, Rome’s Empire had previously reached heights of peace, prosperity, and power from Augustus’ rise after his victory at Actium in 31 B.C. through the end of the great Roman Peace with Commodus’ assassination in A.D. 192. Like us, the Romans had known such profound success for so very long that they had begun to take the comfort and stability of their lives for granted.

Septimius Severus was unusual in that he was the first North African Roman Emperor. He had Carthaginian blood. Never before and rarely since did the scions of Rome’s ancient Punic enemy become its rulers.

Severus rose to power as an Army Officer, becoming commander of Rome’s most powerful Army Group on the eastern frontier. He acquired the Empire by winning the longest and bloodiest Civil War since the founding of Rome’s Empire more than two centuries before.

Donald Trump came to his first Presidency by a route so unconventional that pundits openly mocked the very possibility that he could be elected. As a real estate tycoon, entrepreneur, and media personality, Trump is still not seen as being legitimate by elites within the permanent government, media, and academe, both within and beyond the United States.

Severus had no illusions about the Senate and People of Rome being relevant to Rome’s ongoing governance. Since Augustus’ founding of the Roman Empire in 27 B.C., Rome’s Emperors had to varying degrees behaved as if the Roman Senate still ruled. Instead, Rome was, in fact, a monarchy with republican forms.

While retaining the symbolism of the Senate and People of Rome (SPQR) on legionary standards and allowing the Senate to go through the motions of convening, Severus made certain that they would decide nothing of significance.

Donald Trump does not even pretend to be faithful to the norms of modern American Presidents, going back to William Howard Taft in 1909. He is improvisational rather than restrained, brash rather than diplomatic, calculatedly coarse rather than refined, and bold rather than dignified. He behaves more like a political street fighter than as a Head of State. It is, indeed, shocking to those who expect conventionality. But, his exuberance does clarify his priorities.

Septimius’ rule derived from the application of naked military force. This clarity improved the Empire’s ability to defend itself from the Parthian Empire in what is now Iraq, as well as from a ring of barbarians from central Britain to the Carpathian Mountains, and from the Nile River to the Moroccan Desert.

He personally led in the defeat of the Parthian Empire in the East as well as of the Picts in today’s Scotland. In Asia, Africa, and Europe, Severus expanded Rome’s borders to maximize Roman military power and overawe its enemies.

Donald Trump leads a Free World that is deep in denial about the existential threats we all share. While China reaches for global supremacy, Western elites in Europe, Canada, and America obsess over “Man-Made Climate Change” as if its predictions since the first Earth Day back in 1970 had not been proven false. While China’s allies in Russia, Iran, North Korea, and elsewhere work to undermine American power, the international Left tries to reinvent everything from private property and freedom of expression to biological sex.

Septimius’ wife, Julia Domna, also came from an unusual background; a family of Sun Priests of Emesa (Homs), Syria. She was the most influential Empress in over 150 years, involving herself and her family more fully as a royal family than had been typical in Rome. After Septimius’ death, she and other Syrian female relatives dominated Roman affairs through flawed male Emperors for nearly two decades.

Our First Lady, Melania, hails from the former Yugoslavia. She understands the genuinely exceptional freedoms and opportunities inherent to our American Republic. As such, instead of the fashionable elite contempt for America and Americans, Melania Trump loves America and supports our cultural resurgence.

The Severan dynasty managed Rome’s transition from dominion over a vast Imperial territory towards the time when Rome would come to face an existential crisis. Without its military and territorial improvements, Rome might not have withstood the doubled danger on its northern frontier as Goths supplanted Germans. More critically, it might not have endured the quintupled danger eastward as Parthia was overthrown by a new Sassanid Persian Empire.

Septimius stabilized the Roman World after the shock of the Civil War that preceded him. His reforms were seen as crass and needlessly rude by the Empire’s Patrician elite, but he and his family preserved Roman preeminence during a critical forty years when Rome’s enemies grew conspicuously stronger.

Donald Trump is trying to prepare the United States, North America, and the wider Western World for the intensification of human conflict that is probably coming. His strategic initiatives in Greenland, Canada, Venezuela, Europe, the Middle-East, South Asia, and East Asia are all intended to help protect free peoples from Chinese Communist aggression in a world situation that will likely descend into a perpetual state of anarchy and violence, somewhere between
war and peace.

No, Donald Trump is not an exact copy of Septimius Severus. He is an elected President, not a military Dictator. He acts within Constitutional limits, rather than as an Absolute Monarch. Today’s American Republic is not the Roman Empire between Pax Romana and Crisis; freedom, Judeo-Christian values, industry, and technology give us many more opportunities to restore ourselves.

But the world has been darkening since at least the Terrorist Atrocities of 9/11/01. Each year, our enemies seem stronger and we seem more divided. Like Septimius Severus, Donald Trump is a rough man of action determined to acquire the national power necessary to withstand the coming storm.

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