Stephen Miller Is Going for Broke

[Nevilledog]

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/miller-insurrection/684463/

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Stephen Miller spent his weekend, as he is wont to do, describing American politics as if the nation were in the advanced stages of civil war and as if he were dictating a message while racing to a mountain hideout to escape bloodthirsty guerrillas. “There is a large and growing movement of leftwing terrorism in this country. It is well organized and funded,” he wrote on X. “And it is shielded by far-left Democrat judges, prosecutors and attorneys general. The only remedy is to use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism and terror networks.”

The provocation for this latest sweaty missive was an unfavorable judicial ruling (by a judge contravening President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of 200 National Guardsmen in Oregon). But violent defiance has become the animating vision through which Miller—and, therefore, on account of his sweeping influence over domestic politics, the Trump administration—views his conflict with Democrats, the media, the judiciary, or any entity that stands in his path.

The most consistent theme in Trump’s career is that any word or deed that he deems contrary to his political interests is illegitimate. Any unfavorable news story is libel, any election he loses is rigged, any unflattering fact pattern is a hoax, and almost anybody who opposes him should be locked up.

Miller’s career was defined, in its early stages, by a fanatical hatred of immigration. Over time, as Miller has emerged as the chief architect of Trump’s second-term agenda, his worldview and Trump’s have blended together.

“The Democrat Party is not a political party,” he said in August. “It is a domestic extremist organization.” Several weeks later, Trump seized on Charlie Kirk’s assassination to depict his own political opponents as accessories to murder. “For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals,” he said, in remarks reportedly written by Miller. “This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now.”

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. Going for broke is a high risk strategy /nt

[Skittles]

2. I did nazi that coming

oh wait - yes I did

[Mysterian]

3. Miller will be imprisoned for crimes against the American people

when the rule of law is re-established in this country.

[Bettie]

6. Or, as usually happens,

once Democrats are back in office, they will decline to prosecute because it might look "political"....or have someone in the DOJ that keeps kicking the can down the road until it is too late.

I hope that it happens, I truly do, but I fear our elected party leaders don't have the will to do it.

[RT Atlanta]

4. likely his only option at this stage

that is, to 'go for broke' 'go all in' or however you want to describe it with his fantasy racist world.

We all know - as history teaches us - that sooner or later, the kind of world that he is actively advocating to live in does not take and that 'the people' rise up and fight and that Miller and his ilk end up with dire consequences.

[SamuelTheThird]

5. He'd be killed in the world he advocates, he's truly delusional

[Midnight Writer]

7. Yep, it's funny how these "dog eat dog" types assume that they won't be the dog that is eaten.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

8. Stephen Miller doesn't know what he wants to be when he grows up. He's just an immature brat.

SM: "The Democrat Party..."

That shit is so 1900s, it isn't even funny anymore!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Stephen Miller asks when America has tolerated 'riotous assemblies around government buildings.' The internet responds

Link to tweet

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/stephen-miller-asks-when-america-has-tolerated-riotous-assemblies-around-government-buildings-the-internet-responds/ar-AA1NYeqb

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller has prompted a wave of outrage and mockery online Monday for claiming in

comments about ongoing protests against federal agents that the U.S. has never tolerated “unlawful riotous assemblies” at federal buildings.

“When in our history have we tolerated unlawful riotous assemblies night after night around FBI buildings, or ATF buildings, or DEA buildings?” Miller said during an interview on CNN. “This is the textbook definition of domestic terrorism.”

As many online were quick to point out, one of the first actions of the second Trump administration was to cancel prosecutions or issue pardons to over 1,500 people who were involved in the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, in which a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the Hill in an attempt to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 election win.

“We’re drawing a blank, let us get back to you Stephen,” the Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee wrote on X, posting a photo showing demonstrators with batons and shields trying to force their way past a group of police defending a door into the Capitol during the riot.

ICE officers have indeed faced violent threats during the second Trump administration, including a sniper-style attack on an immigration office in Dallas last month that killed two detainees, but no mass protest against the agency has matched the violence of the Capitol riot.

[Clouds Passing]

10. He already is broke, no fixing that insanity.

[malaise]

11. So is Neil Young

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220702466

[TheBlackAdder]

12. He knows he's got a few months to get things done. Then spend next year, up to November, pretending he didn't do them.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. Why Stephen Miller's weird vision of a vast left-wing conspiracy matters

The deputy chief of staff’s conspiratorial vision is ridiculous, but given his position in the White House, it’d be a mistake to ignore it.

Why Stephen Miller’s weird vision of a vast left-wing conspiracy matters

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— (@gypsydaveh.bsky.social) 2025-10-07T22:50:39.798Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/stephen-millers-weird-vision-vast-left-wing-conspiracy-matters-rcna236217

A couple of months ago, Stephen Miller, Donald Trump’s notorious deputy chief of staff, offered an unsubtle assessment of the political opposition. “The Democrat [sic] Party is not a political party,” he said in August. “It is a domestic extremist organization.”.....

On Saturday afternoon, Miller took additional steps down the same right-wing path. “The Democrat [sic] Party has filled our legal and judicial system with radicals who protect leftwing terrorists,” the White House official wrote online. “This is a very real and dire crisis for our Republican form of government.”

Less than an hour later, he kept going, publishing this related missive:

The issue before is [sic] now is very simple and clear. There is a large and growing movement of leftwing terrorism in this country. It is well organized and funded. And it is shielded by far-left Democrat [sic] judges, prosecutors and attorneys general. The only remedy is to use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism and terror networks.

.....A day later, according to an NBC News tally, Miller used the word “insurrection” at least 12 times over the course of Monday.

“The essence of post-liberalism is the rejection of the notion that some neutral standards of conduct apply to all parties,” The Atlantic’s Jon Chait explained in his latest column. “Miller, like Trump, appears to believe his side stands for what is right and good, and his opponents stand for what is evil. Any methods used by Trump are ipso facto justified, and any methods used against him illegitimate.”

There might be a temptation to shrug this off, but that would be a mistake. There’s a growing body of evidence that suggests Miller isn’t just a hyper-partisan anti-immigration zealot, he also appears to be a leading White House official with a decision-making role related to military resources.

The deputy chief of staff’s vision of a vast left-wing conspiracy is obviously weird and fantastical, but that doesn’t mean it’s irrelevant.