FOR DEMOCRATS, HOW TO FRAME THE ABREGO GARCIA CASE? A number of perceptive observers have detected some internal tension in the Democrats’ handling of the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case. At first the party, and its affiliated groups and media allies, portrayed Abrego Garcia as a great husband and father who had been cruelly abducted by the Trump deportation machine. Then came revelations that Abrego Garcia was credibly accused of membership in the violent transnational gang MS-13, that his wife had filed a domestic violence complaint seeking protection against him, and that he was involved in an odd traffic stop in Tennessee in which authorities suspected he was involved in transporting illegal migrants.

Faced with all that, some in the Democratic world began to argue that the Abrego Garcia controversy wasn’t about any one man. It was instead about the Constitution and the right of all Americans not to be deprived of due process and whisked out of their country to a foreign gulag.