In the Battle of the Acronyms, perhaps no contest is more ferocious than the slugfest between the DSA – that’s “D” for dumb and “S” for commie, I mean “socialist” – and ICE (always excepting TDS vs MAGA). A wacko woman steers her car into an ICE agent. He shoots her. The media calls make up and tries to turn the dead woman into the second coming of Saint George Floyd.

There was a warehouse full of outrage just waiting to be paraded at prime time but somehow the entertainment fell flat. Renée Good, the woman in question, didn’t have what it takes to triumph in the victimology sweepstakes. The anti-Trump media wept for a week and then went on to other wheezes.

Nevertheless the Democratic Socialists of America have kept an eye on ICE. The outfit charged with enforcing our immigration and customs laws is by nature a high-profile agency. If a previous administration allows, nay, encourages millions (that’s “millions” with a boatload of zeros) of grifters from the Third World to scamper over what used to be America’s southern border and set up shop in suburbia, then removing such interlopers is going to be a very public enterprise.

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A year or two back, some enterprising soul had the idea of renaming ICE “NICE,” the “N” standing for “National.” Donald Trump signaled his approval but somehow the new name never caught on. I........

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