One of the claims that you often hear on the left is that fundamental violations of human rights in the United States are a case of chickens come home to roost. That is, vicious policies that the government enacts abroad or on non-citizens on native soil eventually migrate to how the state treats its own citizens. Yet, listening to the Press Secretary of the White House deal with the administration’s vicious treatment of immigrants, it’s clear that in the right’s imagination, the causality often works in the opposite direction. Here’s the NYT: Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, took aim at the media’s reporting on deportation cases Tuesday, accusing journalists of caring more about the due process rights of […]