Conservatives are celebrating Donald Trump’s decision to dispatch border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota to oversee immigration enforcement operations in the Minneapolis area, in what was widely seen as an attempt to sideline Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
Trump’s decision comes just two days after a Border Patrol agent shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. While Noem subsequently claimed that Pretti had “arrived at the scene to inflict maximum damage on individuals and kill law enforcement,” footage of the incident contradicts her description of it.
On Sunday, conservative radio host Erick Erickson suggested that Pretti’s death and tense atmosphere in the Gopher State were attributable to Noem’s leadership.
The first thing you have to understand about conservatives is that they are incapable of making responsible decisions.
They always move from one bad actor to another when the first bad actor becomes too much of a liability to their cause.
After Bush Jr they acted like they never knew the guy then moved on to a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, probable pedophile, and traitor.
Yup. They keep trying to retcon Bush out of existence. Even though ICE was formed under his administration.
What’s the second thing?
That conservatism is an inherently reactionary ideology dedicated to entrenching the status quo and reversing the hard gains made towards a more free, open, and fair society.