ICE is not the victim:

... it was darkly funny how much the self-appointed tough guys of the right whine like spoiled brats.

When interfacing with the public, however, ICE and their supporters inevitably come across as whiny babies playing dress-up.

What is relevant here is the narrative being spun by the lies: that the same men who claim to be big, strapping defenders of Western civilization are also the most vulnerable people imaginable, under constant threat from suburban moms in SUVs, working-class immigrants fleeing poverty or gang violence overseas, hotel managers canceling reservations and liberals calling them “thugs” on social media. 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.

MAGA self-victimization isn’t just beneath contempt. It’s also, as we saw in this shooting, dangerous. It resembles the behavior that psychologists have long documented in abusive partners, which goes under the acronym DARVO for “Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.” First, deny the abuse. When confronted with evidence, attack the victim to imply she had it coming. Then declare you’re the real victim here, and you were forced to hit, rape or, in this case, shoot the victim because [fill in lie about how mean she was]. The ease in which all of MAGA immediately reverted to the psychological habits of self-pitying wife-beaters should give us all pause.

One cannot “correct” MAGA liars; they know they are lying. It’s about calling them out, as Frey did, as deliberately abusive, dishonest and, above all, pathetic people, as men who want to impress everyone with how “strong” they are but whose actions reveal them, time and again, to be contemptible. And weak.