It’s (Stephen) Miller Time, pt 2

He’s a radical from the start

He’s a radical from the start

What happened last time?

Hey y’all, it’s Nick, and I’m Sick of this Shit. In my last post, It’s (Stephen) Miller Time: The Pre-Miller, where we focused on the before times and shed light on how Miller’s family fled the anti-Jewish Russian Pogroms to then immigrate to the US and a success story in the American Dream. Those were the highlights of the Miller story, everything else is downhill. Today, we shift the focus to Stephen Miller himself.

Before we go on though, we remember why we are here—Miller is dangerous, Miller is cunning, Miller is extreme. I hate him. He is odious and we must know our enemy.

He’s a Radical, not a Conservative

Just like the header says—Miller’s a radical, not a conservative.

He is often labeled a conservative, but that term doesn’t fit the bill. Miller isn’t trying to conserve anything—he wants to tear our Constitution and it’s many institutions to shreds. That isn’t conservative, that’s radical. A conservative is someone who follows an ideology meant to “promote and preserve the traditional institutions, customs, and values“ (See, Conservatism). I am a conservative, in the truest sense, because I will always conserve the Constitution by promoting and preserving the values and hopes it outlines. So I ask,

What is conservative about demolishing the Constitution?

What is conservative about tearing down the guardrails?

What is conservative about undermining the values and promise of America?

Nothing, that’s what. There is nothing conservative about that. That is radical.

Specifically, it is right-wing radicalization mixed with good, old-fashioned right-wing populism. This mix of extremism has been the defining darkness of Miller’s existence and has manifested itself as an ultra-nationalistic, self-loathing that he projects onto the rest of the world.

How’d Miller get so radicalized?

So how did Miller get here and how did he become so radicalized? Well, it started at an early age when he was exposed to, consumed by, and became a part of the extreme right-wing media sphere with influences from folks like Wayne LaPierre, Rush Limbaugh, and David Horowitz (described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant extremist). Miller admits that his radicalization began when he read a Wayne LaPierre, then-CEO of the National Rifle Association (NRA), book entitled Guns, Crime, and Freedom (I won’t link to them cause he sucks too). After the introduction to LaPierre’s book it was a quick chain-of-events, in his teens, that led to his appearances on conservative talk radio, writing letters to local papers criticizing his high school’s response to the September 11th attacks, and fomenting false victimhood by inviting controversial activists to Duke University then getting mad when the University prevented the event.

While at Duke, Miller helped another right-wing extremist—Richard Spencer (you might know him best as the guy who coined the term “alt-right”)—with fundraising and promoting anti-immigration policy debates and Spencer later described himself as a mentor to Miller. Miller denies it, but when it walks like a fascist and talks like a fascists, it’s a fascist. So whether Miller was mentored by Spencer or not, their views and ideologies align too closely to be coincidental. In the end, Miller was described in the most obvious (to use) terms—arrogant and incredibly intolerant. He is the type of person that has no flexibility in his views. He is rigid in his beliefs. He is intolerant. He is hateful. He is malevolent.

For now, this is Nick and I’m Sick of this Shit.