Stephen Miller Is The MAGA Platonic Ideal

Collins: We have not heard from one city official that says this is happening

Hagerty: City officials aren’t the only source. There are plenty of people that are saying that this happening. pic.twitter.com/B1PxbkfrTo

— Acyn (@Acyn) September 12, 2024

Replay Miller's meltdown and compare it to Collins here. When confronted with the source of his numbers on crime in Venezuela, Miller wants to cite Maduro's government's statistics, but when he's questioned why he would do that (and not accept the crime statistics of the U.S. government), he completely melts down.  Collins is milder, but in the same vein:  "City officials aren't the only source.  [some people say this is happening....]".  

It'd be interesting if you pointed out to Collins how racist the entire idea is.

You really can't slip a piece of paper between Collins and Miller, except Collins is committed to his talking points, and Miller is invested in his weltanschaaung. It's his identity, and he can't let it be challenged.  But that's just a difference of degree.

Put another way, Miller is the Platonic ideal; Trump is the Form; and GOP MAGAt officials are the shadows of the Form on the cave wall.  But it is still all of a piece, and one is inseperable from the other.