Andrew Egger: “Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has been feeling the heat. After one year running point for Donald Trump’s mass-deportation regime—a year marked by personal scandal, inexplicable management decisions, baroque internal feuds, and a management philosophy of theatrical cruelty that titillated the MAGA base while horrifying the rest of the country, culminating in the disastrous occupation of Minneapolis and the deaths of two U.S. citizens—Noem suddenly seemed to realize weeks ago that Republicans might be looking for a scapegoat for their immigration failures, and that she was a strong candidate.”“Suddenly, she was fleeing the spotlight she’d sought so aggressively all year and looking for others to take the blame.”“It’s hard to imagine Noem’s appearance yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Committee reassured her.”