Miller's theme was that President Donald Trump's side embodies pure good, his opponents pure evil, and the former is destined to utterly destroy the latter. Republicans have never stopped complaining that Hillary Clinton once described a portion of Trump's base as "a basket of deplorables." Yet over the weekend the president's most powerful adviser depicted half the country as worthless, irredeemably wicked, and fated for destruction…
Having nothing to share but bitterness is a strange insult for Stephen Miller, of all people, to hurl. But part of the Miller worldview is an almost proud insistence on holding his enemies to standards he refuses to abide by. The Trump camp has insisted that the fault for last year's attempts on Trump's life lies with anybody who has attacked him as dangerous or authoritarian. Yet Trump himself attacks his enemies in such terms routinely, and Miller seems to be attempting to exceed his boss's Manichaean style by depicting their opponents as the literal embodiment of malevolence…
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/09/stephen-millers-charlie-kirk-funeral/684301/
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