(So, let’s remind them of their earlier attitudes and remarks about federal agents.)

Remember how MAGA so willingly gave federal agents a free pass during their standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge?

Well, not exactly. When Ryan Bundy was asked why he could not just “do all this but without the guns,” Bundy replied, “because the lack of seriousness.” In other words, bringing guns told the Feds that they were serious.

Remember the Bundy Ranch standoff years earlier? MAGA trained weapons on federal agents and promised to return in even greater force if the feds returned.

It was only 25 years ago that right wing Watergate figure Chuck Colson, in his April 28, 2000 Breakpoint email, used the term “Gestapo” to describe the actions of federal agents. Colson wrote, “The second question is the grave one: whether the rule of law has been violated. Two of our country’s most liberal lawyers — both Harvard professors — Alan Dershowitz and Laurence Tribe, had the courage to speak out this week, both saying the Justice Department abused its power — that in fact it was without proper legal authority to break into the Gonzalez home.” Colson’s right. But you’ll never hear words like that from MAGA today.

This was in reference to the Feds ripping six-year old Elian Rodriguez from his parents. Colson’s April 24, 2000 edition wrote, “Janet Reno claims she was carrying out the law. Well, I question that. The Eleventh Circuit Court sustained a decision that stated that any individual at any age can apply for asylum, and Elián did that when he entered the country. … This is not the rule of law. It’s flak-jacketed marshals invading homes in the middle of the night.” Colson’s right! But MAGA is now doing all of the things that Colson himself used to condemn.

The September 19, 2003 edition of The Federalist Digest made this incredibly ironic complaint about – wait for it – the deportation of the six-year old Cuban refugee: “Who couldn’t predict this one! Apparently Bush administration handlers have forgotten January of 2000 when Clintonista Janet Reno’s thugs deported Elian Gonzalez, the 6-year-old Cuban refugee, whose mother died in their struggle to escape Fidel Castro’s tyranny and reach the shores of freedom, where she and Elian would be reunited with family members.” These are words that you’ll never hear from MAGA today, because Democrats are now saying those words.

The federal agents that MAGA deify today are the same federal agents that MAGA used to refer to as “jack-booted government thugs.” The SPLC-listed hate group Family Research Council said these nice things about the federal agents that they now idolize: “Maybe they believed Washington’s heavy jackboots would stamp out the last dying embers of the flame of liberty as they rode off into the sunset of their progressive utopia.”

To be sure, MAGA is willing to criticize federal agents when they are ones being investigated. They had no problem objecting to government wrongdoing when it came in the form of the botched operation at the Idaho home of white supremacist Randy Weaver. These same people were just fine with hints about killing federal agents in this “Patriot” song from not so long ago. At around 3:10 is this little hint: “… Then maybe we should turn off his lights [lo-o-o-o-o-ong pause].” Self-proclaimed “patriots” and MAGA today. These are exactly the same people.

But now, MAGA gives jack-booted federal ICE thugs a blank check and unlimited power.

Why? Because hate has fully consumed MAGA, and they will justify anything that furthers their objective of hurting and harming vulnerable people who are different.