"Among the debris, investigators found a chilling clue: an unused bullet etched with ANTI-ICE. The message was unambiguous. And yet, a striking phenomenon immediately emerged: some on the left refused to accept the image released by the authorities, instead questioning the FBI under President Donald Trump. The act itself was filtered through deep and reasonable suspicion. The left, long accustomed to mocking deep state conspiracies on the right, has now adopted some version of it."
"Deep state narratives, amplified by Trump, cast federal agencies as inherently corrupt, a permanent foil to political legitimacy. These claims are often strategic, preemptive, and untethered from immediate evidence, instead relying on convenient narratives that are repeated. Trump routinely portrayed the FBI as a partisan instrument, from his repeated attacks on the Russia investigation as a witch hunt to his insinuations that career prosecutors and intelligence officials were working to undermine his presidency."
"Similar rhetoric framed the Department of Justice as hostile to conservative priorities, and he repeatedly suggested that mainstream federal law enforcement was complicit in a broader conspiracy to suppress his political agenda, despite scads of evidence that supported the criminal investigations. These Trump-led narratives function less as critiques of specific failures than as a delegitimization of the institutions themselves, creating a perspective in which any future enforcement or investigation is automatically suspect."
A gunman named Joshua Jahn opened fire at a Dallas ICE facility, killing one detainee, critically wounding two others, then killing himself. Investigators found an unused bullet etched with ANTI-ICE among the debris. Some on the left refused to accept the image released by the authorities and instead questioned the FBI under President Donald Trump. The left adopted versions of deep-state skepticism previously associated with the right. Right-wing skepticism has often been ideological and rhetorical. Trump amplified narratives portraying federal agencies as inherently corrupt and politically hostile. Those narratives were strategic and untethered to immediate evidence, delegitimizing institutions and making future enforcement automatically suspect.
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