NBC News is reporting what was always inevitable: the Trump administration’s obsession with mass deportations is now producing chaos inside the Department of Homeland Security. According to the reporting, Secretary Kristi Noem and her top adviser—Trump loyalist Corey Lewandowski—are blaming subordinates for failing to meet deportation quotas, sparking rising tension, paranoia, and outright fear among senior DHS official.
Agency leaders are reportedly worried their emails are being monitored. Some officials have even threatened to quit. Rather than owning the dysfunction, leadership is deflecting blame downward—classic bureaucratic survival behavior in an administration driven by cruelty metrics instead of competence.
In this video, I argue that this isn’t a bug; it’s the system working exactly as designed. An administration built on grievance, intimidation, and loyalty tests will always turn inward once reality collides with rhetoric. The wheels are coming off—not just at DHS, but across the entire government—and this kind of internal rot is likely to metastasize.
It may be politically entertaining to watch these people tear each other apart. But it’s also a warning: a government consumed by infighting and fear is dangerous, unstable, and incapable of governing. Let them fight—but don’t pretend this dysfunction is harmless.
