But that’s what would happen on Earth 1. On the Earth 2 of Trump 2.0, Noem was fired—of course—for upstaging the boss and shifting blame for one of her errors onto him. The error was the $220 million ad campaign that featured images of Noem on horseback, sporting requisite high-end hat and jodhpurs, out where the buffalo once roamed, banging on about “freedom.” Under questioning from GOP Senator John Kennedy, she made the fateful mistake of saying that Trump had approved the ads. And that was all she wrote.
So that’s the first piece of bad news about Noem’s departure: It happened for the wrong reasons. The second piece of bad news is that it’s unlikely to produce much substantive change. Markwayne Mullin, whom Trump has nominated for the job, and whom we must assume will be confirmed by his fellow senators, doesn’t seem like someone whose ideas about the world are terribly different from Noem’s.
Combine that outlook with the fact that Stephen Miller will still be the one really calling the shots, and reasons for hope hang by a very slender thread. Indeed, there’s a lot of speculation out there that this was all orchestrated by Miller, and that Mullin is his man. Certainly, someone with less hunger for media attention can get away with more.
There’s no question that a year ago, Trump, Miller, and Noem assumed they had carte blanche to do as they wished with respect to undocumented immigrants. Why shouldn’t they have? Trump won on immigration, in significant part. He made no secret on the campaign trail of wanting to round up millions and either detain them or ship them off. And the people elected him.
There’s no question that all this highly visible agitation made the ice, so to speak, on which Noem was skating considerably thinner than it might have been. And immigration as an issue has been transformed from a notable Trump strength into one of his most glaring weaknesses. We’ve learned that most Americans value what immigrants—even those who arrived illegally, provided they’ve lived productive lives since—bring to this country. It’s been heartening to see.
Strongly disapprove, by contrast? That was 48 percent. Practically a majority. That’s you (I presume), and that’s me, and that’s millions of good Americans who understand what democracy and freedom actually mean. And we need to keep in mind the real lesson of Noem’s demise: No matter what the Democrats in Washington do or don’t do, we still have power in our hands. Let’s keep using it.
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