On Tuesday, American voters sent Stephen Miller back to the factory.
Miller’s name was on no ballot. But his work was everywhere. The masked vans, the quota, the arrest at the mandatory check-in, the five-year-old in the slammer. All the world could see that under Trump’s henchman Miller, a young kid in a bunny hat had somehow become the new enemy of the republic. Voters looked at it and said no. In droves. Anywhere else, that would be a repudiation.
Democrats took the Senate, flipping seven seats for a 54-44 majority with two races still to call. In the House they were on track for their biggest majority since 2008.
Immigration was not the only charge. Voters were angry about prices, tariffs, corruption and the war in Iran. But immigration was where the cruelty showed.
Nearly six in 10 voters told exit pollsters the crackdown had gone too far. Six in 10 disapproved of ICE.
In Maine, Susan Collins lost to Troy Jackson. One Biddeford voter told The Boston Globe immigration was largely why. In Houston, Minneapolis and Biddeford, hundreds of people pressed their “I Voted” stickers on to memorials for people killed by ICE.
Alex Pretti. Renée Good. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.
A sticker on a shrine. That is what a referendum looks like when the dead can’t vote.
On Friday, Donald Trump made Stephen Miller his chief of staff, replacing Susie Wiles. In a Truth Social post he called Miller one of his “most trusted” advisers. Three weeks earlier, asked on Newsmax whether he trusted Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump had said:
“I don’t trust anybody, honestly. In the world of politics, I don’t trust anybody.”
Every shopper knows the move. The washing powder fails. Sales slump. But nobody touches the formula. They change the box. New. Improved. Now with added enzymes.
America asked for less Miller. It is getting the extra-large, economy, family size, concentrated. Now!
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin put the relaunch in a three-word jingle: “Deportations will continue.” JD Vance said he was open to changing enforcement but would not wear amnesty, as if those were the only two settings on the machine. As if his president hasn’t been generous with other pardons. It is the false dilemma, a fallacy old enough to draw a pension, and it has one job. Keep the machine running.
The machine has a quota. In May last year Miller went on Fox to brag to Sean Hannity, the network’s shrillest shill.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, we are looking to set a goal of a minimum of 3,000 arrests for ICE every day.” That was ten times the daily arrest rate under Biden.
He told agents, according to The Guardian, to “turn the creative knob up to 11“. One official recalled Miller’s frustration with agents who were chasing criminals: “Why aren’t you at Home Depot?”
Three thousand a day.
Not a policy. A sales target. Somewhere in Washington a whiteboard counts human beings the way a car yard counts units shifted, and the man who drew it up now runs the building.
ICE has never hit its quota. Arrests fell nearly 20 percent between June and July last year. But hitting it was never the point. An impossible target keeps the racist base geed up, and it never runs out. It goes looking for easier prey: the father at the check-in, the kid on the way to work.
In Chelsea, Massachusetts, a recent high school graduate was taken on his way to work. Gladys Vega of La Colaborativa calls part of the city a “ghost town”. Her volunteers now walk students home from the high school. “Our young people are a mess,” she says.
In Providence, ICE detained a father who had been filmed last month surrounded by agents while holding his children.
Three thousand a day.
Trump has always had the words for this, however much he struggles with an autocue. In January 2018, in the Oval Office, he asked lawmakers: “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” He meant Haiti, El Salvador and Africa. He wanted more people from places like Norway.
In September last year he turned a version of the word on his own country. “Chicago is a hellhole right now. Baltimore is a hellhole right now.” Then he sent in the National Guard.
Miller has his own lexicon. Election day 2024? “Illegals are raping and murdering American children.” He wants “a moratorium on immigration from third world countries until we can heal ourselves as a nation.”
Heal ourselves. From what? He does not always say. Norway is a clue. But any fool can hear the racism.
Last December he went further, to Will Cain on Fox News. “Not only is the first generation unsuccessful,” Miller explained. Somalia was his “clear example”. “You see persistent issues in every subsequent generation”: “consistent high rates of welfare use, consistent high rates of criminal activity, consistent failures to assimilate.”
Every subsequent generation. Let us test the theory on a family close to home.
On 7 January 1903, a man called Wolf-Leib Glosser stepped onto Ellis Island from Antopol, a shtetl in the marshes of what is now Belarus. Its own Jews called it Mud. Pogroms, epidemics and emigration kept it small. He had $8 to his name. He spoke Polish, Russian and Yiddish, and no English. He started as a peddler and worked in sweatshops. In time he owned a haberdashery in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
Wolf-Leib Glosser was Stephen Miller’s great-great-grandfather. Later the family firm grew big enough to list on the American Stock Exchange. Four generations on, the family has produced a White House chief of staff.
Miller’s uncle, the neuropsychologist David Glosser, wrote it up in Politico in 2018. “If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago,” he wrote, “our family would have been wiped out.”
Those who stayed got Stalin in 1939 and Hitler in 1941. Of the 2,000 Jews who remained in Antopol, the Nazis murdered all but seven.
In November 1988, Ronald Reagan passed on a line from a letter he said he got. “You can go to live in France, but you can’t become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany, but you can’t become a German. But anyone, from any corner of the world, can come to live in the United States and become an American.”
Reagan’s party has gifted the White House to a descendant of Antopol who wants to slam the door behind him.
And the President? He has other things on his mind.
Every ruler who mistakes himself for a nation needs a monument. Nero cleared a swathe of Rome after the fire of 64 AD and built himself a Golden House, with a colossal statue of himself out the front. Trump, a legend in his own reflection, has had to make do with Washington.
He knocked down the East Wing to build a ballroom. He has a helipad coming for the South Lawn. He has gilded the Oval Office down to the cherubs in the door frames. Of course, he has to show off his expertise for this job.
“You’ve never been able to match gold with gold paint,” he explained, “that’s why it’s gold.” Genius.
Naturally he wants a triumphal arch, 250 feet of granite near the Arlington Memorial Bridge, topped with three golden statues. A reporter asked him who it was for. “Me.”
Then the arch went to war. At “the strong request of the United States Military”, Trump announced, it would become “a top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch“, fitted for drones, snipers and ammunition.
The vanity and the violence were always the same project.
Operation Epic Fury began on 28 February. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War, called it “the most lethal, most complex and most precise aerial operation in history.”
That first morning a strike hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh Girls’ Elementary School in Minab, in southern Iran. Saturday is the first day of the Iranian school week. Classes were underway. UNICEF says 168 girls were killed.
Two days later Hegseth stood at the Pentagon lectern. “No apologies, no hesitation, epic fury.”
Two days after that: “America is winning decisively, devastatingly, and without mercy.”
By the April ceasefire, General Dan Caine was counting more than 13,000 targets struck. Hegseth said Iran had “begged” for the ceasefire, and that America had used “less than 10%” of its capabilities.
He was not reporting a war. He was launching a product. In March he had boasted that Epic Fury packed twice the power of the 2003 attack on Iraq. New. Improved. Now with added enzymes.
Thirteen thousand targets. Three thousand arrests a day. Same shop, same whiteboard. In this administration the number is the policy, and the dead are the receipts.
Now the bad news for anyone who stayed up to watch the map turn blue.
A chief of staff needs no Senate confirmation. Fifty-four senators cannot touch him.
And look who walked out as he walked in. Whether she jumped or was pushed, Trump chose her successor in the week of the rebuke. Goodbye, Susan L. Summerall Wiles, “the most feared and least known political operative in America”. We barely knew you.
Susie Wiles was no saint. She ran Trump’s 2024 campaign and covered for him in the West Wing. But she was a moderate Republican, not a MAGA zealot, and her job was to impose some discipline on his disorder. Trump called her the Ice Maiden.
She knew exactly what she was minding. Last December she told Vanity Fair that Trump has “an alcoholic’s personality” and “operates [with] a view that there’s nothing he can’t do. Nothing, zero, nothing.” She insisted she was “not an enabler.”
That was the brake. The brake has gone.
Miller brings form. At Duke he worked alongside Richard Spencer, who later boasted: “Clearly I was influencing him.”Miller denies it. In 2015 and 2016, more than 900 leaked emails show, he fed white nationalist material to Breitbart.
The president who believes there is nothing he can’t do now has a chief of staff who believes there is nothing he shouldn’t.
The money is already in the bank. Last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill gave ICE $45 billion for detention, enough on ICE’s own costings for 116,000 beds, and nearly $30 billion more for agents, transport and technology. It can spend the lot any time until 30 September 2029.
The new Congress sits in January. It can subpoena. It can hold hearings. It can sit Mullin under the lights and make him say “deportations will continue” to a committee instead of to X. That matters. A record matters.
But a hearing does not stop a van. The power of the purse arrives after the purse has been spent, by a Congress that no longer exists, on camps that will outlast the one that replaced it.
Congress keeps business hours. ICE works Saturdays.
From January, Democrats get a say over new money. They do not get the veto, or the money already appropriated, or any brake on a bureaucracy built to move fast and out of sight.
So this is what the voters bought on Tuesday. They bought hearings, subpoenas and the chance to make the White House explain itself in public. They did not buy a pause button. Far too many corporate media commentators are talking as if the tape has stopped, even rewound. Nonsense. Think fast forward.
The people lodged a protest. The White House filed it as a product review, read the one-star ratings and promoted the man who wrote the formula.
Trump mocks “shithole countries”. He sneers at American hellholes. Now he is digging his own. Call it the United States of Paranoid Hate. On Monday its racist-in-chief moves into the chief of staff’s office, and the mantra goes up on the whiteboard.
Three thousand. A day. Every day, until 30 September 2029.
America asked for the volume down. Trump handed the controls to the man who turned it up to 11. He has only just begun.
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S Miller, filth and crime coated in deepfried slime, a crooked twisted distorted germy misfit psychodicky under the spewingarsed Trump! The USA at least showed promise long ago, but now betrays all sense, decency, civilisation. Was Nazi nastiness actually correct and misunderstood? Are we all reduced to selfcentred filthy ambition, hatred, stupidity?
A sad but necessarily thoroughly objective analysis of how the Republican party machine & TACO Trumpery are ignoring the Mid-Term election wipe-out results.
The puppeteer has taken over the reins from the ventriloquist’s dummy and things are likely to get worse in the Undemocratic Sewer of Apartheid (USA) as the demented, geriatric, draft-dodging bone spurs, multiple bankrupt, convicted felon masquerading as POTUS recedes into irrelevance as population policies practised in Russia and formerly in Germany 1933-1945 continue to turn Hollywood’s ”the American Dream” into ”The Nightmare on Main Street”.
From Meidas Touch Network 071126 (ABSTRACT):
Trump MUST Pay. Bernie Sanders and Robert Garcia Lay Out What Comes Next.
The American people delivered a historic victory. Now comes the hard part: taking on the oligarchs, delivering for working families, and holding the Trump regime accountable.
Meidas Mighty, I have two very important conversations to share with you today. And I want you to pay close attention to both of them, because I think they get to the heart of what this historic midterm election victory actually means for our country.
I sat down with Senator Bernie Sanders and Democratic Congressmember Robert Garcia, who is preparing to take the gavel as the next chair of the House Oversight Committee.
Two conversations. Two incredibly important missions. And one overarching message: The American people did not vote for a return to business as usual. They voted for fundamental change.
We cannot simply celebrate an election victory and move on. We cannot allow the Trump regime, the Trump crime family, and the oligarchs who have looted this country to escape accountability. And we cannot allow the political establishment to take this historic mandate and water it down into the same tired, incremental policies that got us into this mess in the first place.
We need to think bigger. We need to think about generational change.
Bernie Sanders: This Is a Mandate to Take On the Oligarchs
I wanted to start by taking Senator Sanders back to early 2025, when he launched his Fight the Oligarchy tour alongside Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others.
Remember where we were as a country at that moment.
Donald Trump had returned to power. There was a dark shadow hanging over the country. People were scared. People were demoralized. The billionaire class was celebrating.
And Senator Sanders did something incredibly important.
He went directly to the people.
He traveled to communities across the country, including some of the most conservative parts of America, and he listened.
Not just speeches. Not just rallies. Actual conversations with people about what was happening in their lives.
And what did he hear?
People couldn’t afford health care. They couldn’t afford housing. They were worried about their children’s education. They were concerned about artificial intelligence and massive data centers moving into their communities. They were working harder than ever and still struggling to make ends meet.
Sound familiar?
Because here’s what struck me as we covered those rallies on MeidasTouch: The issues that mattered to people in conservative communities were virtually identical to the issues that mattered to people in progressive communities.
Senator Sanders told me about visiting the most pro-Trump county in West Virginia.
People there were worried about finding doctors, traveling hours to see specialists, the safety of their drinking water, and whether their children would have a better future.
These were the same concerns he heard everywhere else.
And that is such a profoundly important lesson.
The oligarchs want us divided. They want us fighting about labels. They want politics to be this endless game of red versus blue, conservative versus progressive, while they loot and plunder our country.
But when you actually listen to people, when you strip away the labels and the manufactured outrage, the vast majority of Americans want many of the same things.
They want affordable health care. They want housing. They want good jobs. They want wages with dignity. They want a government that works for them instead of a handful of billionaires.
Senator Sanders put it plainly: “The system is broken. People want and demand change.”
And now the election results have demonstrated just how powerful that message can be.
But I wanted to go further with Senator Sanders.
Because winning elections is important. Delivering results is what ultimately matters.
And he laid out a very specific agenda.
He called for reversing the devastating health care cuts imposed by the Trump regime. He called for Medicare for All, with a transition that would lower the Medicare eligibility age, expand benefits, and eliminate out-of-pocket expenses.
He called for raising the federal minimum wage to at least $20 an hour.
He proposed a wealth tax on billionaires that he said could raise $4 trillion over a decade, helping fund immediate financial relief for working families, tuition-free public colleges, millions of affordable housing units, and universal child care.
And he called for ending the war in Iran and U.S. military aid to the Israeli government.
Now, corporate media will inevitably try to frame these proposals as some radical progressive wish list.
But Senator Sanders made an important point about the public support for these ideas.
“These are not, quote unquote, progressive ideas,” he told me. “These are the ideas that the vast majority of the American people believe in.”
Exactly.
Why are we allowing billionaires and corporate media executives to dictate what constitutes a mainstream political position when the American people are telling us what they actually want?
We are the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Yet millions of Americans cannot afford basic health care, housing, or a decent standard of living.
That is not a failure of resources. It is a failure of priorities.
And we have to change those priorities.
Look, I’m not going to hide the ball here… We have a tremendous opportunity in front of us. But we also have an enormous responsibility.
We cannot simply celebrate an election victory and move on. We cannot allow the Trump regime, the Trump crime family, and the oligarchs who have looted this country to escape accountability. And we cannot allow the political establishment to take this historic mandate and water it down into the same tired, incremental policies that got us into this mess in the first place.
We need to think bigger. We need to think about generational change.
And that’s exactly where my conversation with Senator Bernie Sanders began.
Bernie Sanders: This Is a Mandate to Take On the Oligarchs
I wanted to start by taking Senator Sanders back to early 2025, when he launched his Fight the Oligarchy tour alongside Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others.
Remember where we were as a country at that moment.
Donald Trump had returned to power. There was a dark shadow hanging over the country. People were scared. People were demoralized. The billionaire class was celebrating.
And what did he hear?
People couldn’t afford health care. They couldn’t afford housing. They were worried about their children’s education. They were concerned about artificial intelligence and massive data centers moving into their communities. They were working harder than ever and still struggling to make ends meet.
Sound familiar?
Because here’s what struck me as we covered those rallies on MeidasTouch: The issues that mattered to people in conservative communities were virtually identical to the issues that mattered to people in progressive communities.
Senator Sanders told me about visiting the most pro-Trump county in West Virginia.
People there were worried about finding doctors, traveling hours to see specialists, the safety of their drinking water, and whether their children would have a better future.
These were the same concerns he heard everywhere else.
And that is such a profoundly important lesson.
The oligarchs want us divided. They want us fighting about labels. They want politics to be this endless game of red versus blue, conservative versus progressive, while they loot and plunder our country.
But when you actually listen to people, when you strip away the labels and the manufactured outrage, the vast majority of Americans want many of the same things.
They want affordable health care. They want housing. They want good jobs. They want wages with dignity. They want a government that works for them instead of a handful of billionaires.
Senator Sanders put it plainly: “The system is broken. People want and demand change.”
And now the election results have demonstrated just how powerful that message can be.
But I wanted to go further with Senator Sanders.
Because winning elections is important. Delivering results is what ultimately matters.
And he laid out a very specific agenda.
He called for reversing the devastating health care cuts imposed by the Trump regime. He called for Medicare for All, with a transition that would lower the Medicare eligibility age, expand benefits, and eliminate out-of-pocket expenses.
He called for raising the federal minimum wage to at least $20 an hour.
He proposed a wealth tax on billionaires that he said could raise $4 trillion over a decade, helping fund immediate financial relief for working families, tuition-free public colleges, millions of affordable housing units, and universal child care.
And he called for ending the war in Iran and U.S. military aid to the Israeli government.
Now, corporate media will inevitably try to frame these proposals as some radical progressive wish list.
But Senator Sanders made an important point about the public support for these ideas.
“These are not, quote unquote, progressive ideas,” he told me. “These are the ideas that the vast majority of the American people believe in.”
Exactly.
Why are we allowing billionaires and corporate media executives to dictate what constitutes a mainstream political position when the American people are telling us what they actually want?
We are the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Yet millions of Americans cannot afford basic health care, housing, or a decent standard of living.
That is not a failure of resources. It is a failure of priorities.
And we have to change those priorities.
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The Oligarchy Is Bigger Than Trump
One of the most important parts of my conversation with Senator Sanders was about something I discuss frequently on this network: generational and international change.
The authoritarian movement did not begin with Donald Trump. And it will not magically disappear when Donald Trump leaves office.
These oligarchs have spent decades building political, economic, and media structures that protect their wealth and power.
And they are operating internationally.
Senator Sanders discussed Elon Musk’s involvement with right-wing political movements overseas, the extraordinary concentration of global wealth, and the influence of wealthy authoritarian governments.
We also discussed the corporate ownership of media and the power that billionaires exercise over the information Americans consume.
Think about that for a moment.
The same people who benefit from the rigged economic system increasingly control the platforms where we debate that system.
And then we wonder why corporate media spends so little time discussing wealth inequality, universal health care, or the influence of money in politics.
Senator Sanders also raised serious concerns about artificial intelligence, including job displacement, privacy, democracy, and the enormous power of technology companies.
He pointed to the growing resistance to data centers across the country as evidence that Americans are demanding a greater say in how these technologies affect their communities.
This is why independent media matters so much.
We cannot allow the people who profit from the system to be the only ones explaining the system to us.
And we cannot think about democracy only in two-year election cycles.
We have to build something lasting.
As Senator Sanders told me toward the end of our conversation, Democrats cannot afford to fail working-class Americans at this moment.
“The Democrats cannot, at this enormously important moment, fail the working class of this country.”
I could not agree more.
Which brings me to my second conversation.
Because while Senator Sanders laid out the agenda for economic justice and structural change, Congressmember Robert Garcia laid out something equally essential.
Accountability.
Netanyahu and all he represents must be delighted that they got Miller into the Whitehouse – BiBi has got the control stick in his hands again!
And this morning, the Orange Shitgibbon posted that he has asked Dana White, the UFC President, to be White House Press Secretary. As a side note; I couldn’t help noticing early on that Miller bears more than a passing resemblance to Josef Goebbels. These creatures are batshit crazy and evil as hell.
I asked AI where the $5000 Trump dividend money has gone. It responded in a way that characterises the whole Trump/MAGA phenomenon:
“The $5,000 “Trump Dividend” money does not exist because the specific condition required to fund it was not met. President Donald Trump promised a one-time $5,000 cash payment to every adult U.S. citizen. However, this payout was strictly contingent on Republicans winning control of both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate in the November 2026 midterm elections.
Because Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress in the November 3, 2026 midterms, the proposal has effectively faded.”
“Why the Money Was Never Distributed
• The Election Condition Failed: Trump explicitly repeated throughout his campaign trail that the checks would only be issued if the GOP maintained congressional majorities. The Democratic sweep nullified this pledge.
• No Law Was Passed: The president does not have the unilateral authority to send out federal funds. The payout would have required congressional approval to appropriate the estimated $1.2 trillion to $1.35 trillion required.
• Unrealistic Funding Sources: The administration suggested funding the checks [cheques] using tariff revenues. However, budget analysts tracking the proposal noted that actual tariff revenues fell far short of what was needed to cover the enormous cost.
Reports from media outlets like AL.com and USA Today note that White House officials have since been highly vague about the future of the payments, and fiscal experts confirm that Americans should not expect to receive these checks [cheques].”
I almost pity anyone trying to get to The Demented Orange having to go through Bormann, I mean Miller first.
So, this is how Trump accepts the election results: accelerating implementation of Project 2025, and especially the worst aspects of it. There isn’t a minority group that won’t be under sustained attack for the next two years. This is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
@ Michael, yes, he does and just like Gobbel’s did with the moustached one, he knows how to play to Trump’s fantasies, that will not end well at all for any of them.
NEC, bless you, mate. Not many readers send an essay back. Fewer arrive with the headline already loaded and cocked. TACO Trumpery is a beauty, by the way.
Your puppeteer and ventriloquist’s dummy is the line I’ll be pinching, because it’s exactly what Friday looked like from here. On Tuesday the voters sent the act back to the shop. By Friday the man with his hand up the back had been given the office next door. Stephen Miller starts as chief of staff on Monday. A chief of staff needs no Senate confirmation, so fifty-four senators can’t lay a glove on him. If you want proof that the Republican machine is ignoring the wipe-out, that’s your Exhibit A. Markwayne Mullin wrote the caption for you: “Deportations will continue.”
You deserve an honest editor more than a cheer squad, so here are two notes.
First, the Meidas piece you’ve pasted doesn’t make your headline’s case. It’s a conversation with Sanders and Garcia about what the Democrats should do next. It’s worth reading. Bernie’s warning that “The Democrats cannot, at this enormously important moment, fail the working class of this country” should be framed and hung in Labor’s caucus room here. But it says next to nothing about the Republicans. Your headline promises the Republicans and the copy delivers the Democrats. Also, a big chunk has pasted in twice: the whole Sanders section, from “I wanted to start” down to “change those priorities”, runs a second time. Trim that and the essay breathes.
Second, your opening. You call it “thoroughly objective”, then go straight to “Undemocratic Sewer of Apartheid”. Pick one. Satire doesn’t need to be objective, but it does need to be unanswerable. The comparison with Germany 1933 to 1945 is the first thing a Miller defender will grab, because it lets him argue about the analogy instead of the facts. I cut a Kristallnacht reference from my own Miller piece for exactly that reason. His family history does the job better. His great-great-grandfather Wolf-Leib Glosser came through Ellis Island from Antopol in 1903 with $8 to his name. Of the 2,000 Jews who stayed behind, the Nazis murdered all but seven. Miller’s own uncle wrote that if his nephew’s policies had been in force a century ago, the family would have been wiped out. Let the facts carry the history and nobody can call it hyperbole.
“Demented” has the same problem. An armchair diagnosis hands them an easy rebuttal. “Convicted felon” sticks because it’s on the court record.
Keep them coming. The day a reader stops arguing with the page is the day the page stops mattering.
Kind regards, David
Miller represents fossil fueled anti-immigrant Tanton Network side of Project 2025 with segregation economics of (Atlas) Koch Network, represented by Russell Vought Director the WH OMB.
However, Miller’s muse post (public) high school rants was David Horowitz, also Jewish, but had flipped from radical left to radical right in ’70s (with a classic justification to support this bio or legend).
Same Horowitz* was friends with late white nationalist, eugenicist, white Oz admirer and peer of Paul ‘Population Bomb’ Ehrlich, John Tanton.
Tanton had visited Oz ’80s or ’90s hosted by SusPopAus, Ehrlich did sabbatical in Sydney at UTS late ’60s; both influential across Anglosphere on environmental & migration policies, through astroturfing as centrist…..
Former AG under Trump 1.0 was Jeff Sessions who had previously employed Stephen Miller as aide etc. giving him entree to politics; their ecosystem adjacent to Bannon, Spencer et al….
*Horowitz taught Miller the far right political strategy of using the language of the left and distort the meaning to benefit the right and echo it’s ideology (see locally Orwellian statements by the right).
For example fossil fuel greenwashing based on LTG limits to growth and ‘sustainability’ is used to deflect from robust top down carbon etc. regulation, fossil fuels and/or delay clean energy transition while blaming immigrants, and claiming to be on the left…..
(Hear some indie left media and Green narratives in Oz that Ukraine should not be armed, concur with Atlas Koch, Trump, Musk, Fox News, AfD, Le Pen, Miller, Farage etc.; lazily cooked &/or easily misinformed?).
Finally, Miller’s favourite literature is the dystopian novel Jean Raspail’s Camp of the Saints, that inspired Mitterand, Reagan, Le Pens et al, Renaud Camus’ ‘The Great Replacemwnt’ relaunch & GOP messaging/dog whistling, had been published by Tanton Network’s TSPC publishing outfit, SPLC:
‘The Social Contract Press (TSCP) routinely publishes race-baiting articles penned by white nationalists. The press is a program of U.S. Inc, the foundation created by John Tanton, the racist founder and principal ideologue of the modern nativist movement. TSCP puts an academic veneer of legitimacy over what are essentially racist arguments about the inferiority of today’s immigrants.’
Locally the same Camp of the Saints was successfully downgraded to ‘Unrestricted’ from ‘Mature’ by Classified Australia during late Morrison reign as a result of an application by the ABF Terror Unit?
Apologies to all for the unintended unnecessary duplication.
@ David Tyler: Thank you for your kind words, and necessary editorial guidance. You are very welcome to use those words as you see fit.
In explanation, the dysfunction was noted, however (perhaps because of my NeuroDivergent thinking) the content of the abstracted Meidas Touch Network article was considered a significant comment from a credible independent US source on the American population feelings at this time, when local Australian MSM appear a long way out of touch with any political reality, either in the USA or Australia.
$5000 per US adult for Trump’s victory?
Thankfully there are some things that money can’t buy.