Wednesday, January 07, 2026

Nothing To See Here

 Stephen Miller is not the “tough guy:”

Marco Rubio's job is to make people feel better, to make other nations feel like we're not trying to take over the world, make Republican senators feel like, hey, we're not just going to do crazy things, and it's Stephen Miller's job as kind of the the mob boss of the White House," VandeHei added. "The guy is the tough guy, he's the guy who got them to go even harder line than Trump himself wanted to go on immigration. He understands power now. He understands the power void. He knows if he pushes as hard as he is, like he did in that CNN interview, he can move the balance of power closer to his worldview, and don't underestimate his power internally. He's by far and away the most powerful staffer in this administration – not close."
Miller is the white supremacist who thinks he’s got to make the world safe for white people, who are the superior people of the earth.
Not long after World War II the West dissolved its empires and colonies and began sending colossal sums of taxpayer-funded aid to these former territories (despite have already made them far wealthier and more successful). The West opened its borders, a kind of reverse colonization, providing welfare and thus remittances, while extending to these newcomers and their families not only the full franchise but preferential legal and financial treatment over the native citizenry. The neoliberal experiment, at its core, has been a long self-punishment of the places and peoples that built the modern world.
(Miller reposted that one on his Twitter feed. He's not hiding this stuff.) By...? Three guesses; the first two don’t count. See? But remain calm, all is well. The NYT is here to reassure us that Stephen Miller is just “offer[ing] a strong man’s view of the world.” Nothing to see here.

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