The Noem Debacle
A Face-Save Wrapped in a Face-Plant Look, politics is theater, but sometimes the script is so ham-fisted you can smell the desperation from Plano to Pierre. Kristi Noem’s whirlwind ride—from South Dakota governor to Trump’s DHS Secretary pick, to a 59-34 Senate confirmation, to a brutal hearing this week, to reassignment as “Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas”—is a masterclass in how fast trust evaporates when you cross the boss under oath. The root rot was already there: the Minneapolis ICE operation that left two U.S. citizens dead (bodycam footage didn’t match Noem’s “domestic terrorists” rhetoric), sluggish FEMA responses,…