An analyst Friday called out MAGA and "the narrative being spun by the lies" after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis this week.
The MAGA world has pretended to play victim — both before the fatal shooting and after — Salon's Amanda Marcotte wrote in an opinion piece.
"This attitude has been endemic with ICE and their supporters since Donald Trump took office," Marcotte wrote. "The agency’s recruiting materials lure would-be agents with heavy-handed language; agents are 'brave' and 'resolute' men fighting 'criminals and predators.' (And in case they were worried, the top of the page reassures applicants, 'You do not need an undergraduate degree.') When interfacing with the public, however, ICE and their supporters inevitably come across as whiny babies playing dress-up."
ICE has used its position "to create the moral authority to kidnap and kill people at will, ICE and their propagandists have framed themselves as the ultimate victims. It’s a complete inverse of reality," the writer explained. And after Good's killing, it was evident just how far the Trump administration has taken "this preposterous spin."
"The ICE victim complex goes deep. As Good’s killing showed, it’s deadly," Marcotte wrote. "By relentlessly and falsely portraying agents as a beleaguered group terrorized by day care workers, nativity scenes and hotel employees, MAGA has preemptively justified violence against unarmed civilians as an act of self-defense."
The Trump administration, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, have attempted to say Good was committing "domestic terrorism."
"All of MAGA, really, fell in line, painting the man who shot a woman three times as the real victim and continuing to deny the evidence witnessed by our eyes and ears," Marcotte wrote.
