Prior to WWI, routes were the most common way people died on battlefields. It wasn’t during charges into muskets and cannons. It was when one side panicked and literally got stabbed in the back as they tried to run away.

People really don’t like dying and will avoid doing dangerous things that potentially get them killed. But when the panic sets in, they stop thinking and are in pure survival mode. This results in complete disorganization where an organized opponent has an opportunity to do as much damage as possible.

Yea that’s how I see it, they probably think Bovino is too “gay and woke” to do proper fascist things or something

Homan is probably more of a career bureaucrat, so he’s probably there to enforce stronger discipline among the agents while still carrying out the core missions, make the agency’s operations more efficient, and move through this current political crisis. Its possible, even likely, that Homan had criticisms of the way the agency was being run by Bovino, because the shock doctrine being employed by the admin is backfiring. Moderate conservatives have been on an anti-trump trajectory, its in the air if not already settled in to a lot of people. The murders in Minneapolis has shocked even more of these people who make up a significant chunk of Trump’s base.

There’s always two sides. This version of ICE under Trump is a way to create the one crucial element that the fascist right has been lacking: the friekorps (in the 20th century context). In Europe there were all these soldiers who were traumatized during WW1. As fascism began to ascend from the mid 20s - early 30s, there was a nascent army upon which could be built an oppressive force for the ambitions of the Nazi party. In the USA we didn’t have much of this, little rural militias are prevalent but not enough to seize power. So ICE is a way to train people to be fascists in more than just ideology, it trains people to fight, organizational discipline, and let’s the admin work out the kinks. To a large extent, they want these ICE soldiers clashing with resistance, in order to train them. They’ll catch enough of the proud boys and militia guys anyway, dont have to deal with a thousand little armed fiefdoms.

The other side is that it trains us as well. And no matter what, theres going to be more of us. So there’s a balance to be struck. Carry out the mission, but dont accidentally create an effective counter force. I think there is an understanding among some more strategic minds, that resistance could be much more organized than we are, and the reasons we aren’t more organized are ideological. They can’t give too many people a practical impetus to organize collectively, so they’re sending the bureaucrat. Bureaucracy hides injustice behind laws, and cruelty behind orders.

They need to scale back the appearance of mayhem without scaling back the mayhem itself. At least thats what I think is going on.

Greg Porcino