The demagogic response to the ICE killing is the domestic side of Stephen Millerism. This administration cannot recognize the category of “victim” in regard to its policies or the agents carrying them out; any victim must be immediately converted into an enemy. 1/4

If victims can exist, that would suggest that force might be subject to reflection and accountability. In other words, that it might be constrained by something other than raw power. 2/4

In general, these folks imagine themselves as making bold revelations when they announce to us that the world is structured by force. But this is not something that liberalism denies or obscures; it is the underlying assumption of liberalism. 3/4