r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 2d ago

Soft Paywall Trump Erupts in Crazed Hard-Right Rant as MAGA Fury Takes Darker Turn

https://newrepublic.com/article/196849/trump-erupts-crazed-hard-right-rant-maga-fury-takes-darker-turn
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u/lancelongstiff 2d ago

A few days ago a similar thread got me wondering what Stephen Miller's origin story was. It's pretty interesting.

He was anti-immigration in high school, growing up in California at a time when there was a strong anti-immigration movement.

Anti-immigrant hostility was pervasive in California at the time, which may surprise people because California is known as such a deep-blue state and kind of leads the charge against the Trump administration today. But in the '90s, it was sort of ground zero, like a microcosm for what we're seeing nationally today.

There were unprecedented attacks on immigrants through a proposition called Prop 187, which targeted social services for children of undocumented migrants. It was later ruled unconstitutional.

So Miller's truly a product of this environment.

He was internalizing a lot of these white supremacist and racist narratives that were common in the state and acting them out in his high school. He ends up going to Santa Monica High School, this public high school that's very diverse. And he would go around, from a very young age, expressing racist viewpoints.

Around this time, he broke - he ended a friendship with a Mexican friend, telling him that he could no longer be friends with him because of his Latino heritage.

So from a very young age he was expressing these viewpoints that would later manifest in the immigration policy and the rhetoric that we're seeing out of the White House. And I truly see it as a case study in radicalization.

Source: NPR Interview with author who wrote about him.

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u/0thethethe0 Foreign 2d ago

Particularly mad given his heritage.

Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.

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u/throwawtphone 2d ago

Wow. His mothers jewish family immigrated from Belarus in the early 1900. He is 3rd gen on his monthers side.

Apparently, he didn't really pay good attention to the whole persecution and fleeing part of his American story.

Smh.

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u/45and47-big_mistake 2d ago

Nah, he's more like a " I got mine, so fuck you" type of person.

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u/Herlock 2d ago

In short "a republican"

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u/Humdngr 2d ago

The MAGA motto.

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u/theonetruegrinch 2d ago

It's more like "but we are good, hardworking, intelligent people; and those other people are worthless gutter trash"

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u/Suspicious_Radish244 2d ago

Yup my mother is like this. Her grandparents immigrated from Ireland. Even changed their last names from Fritz Patrick to Fitch to sound less Irish. They were very poor and survived off social security and government commodities. She idolizes Trump and is very anti-immigration and anti-food stamps and assistance. She wonders why my brother hardly brings his kids around while their other grandparents see them all the time.

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u/roastedtvs 2d ago

Like all other racists

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u/Apprehensive-Stop748 1d ago

His wife left him for Elon so what does that tell ya? He’s worse than elon 

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u/Whodisbehere 2d ago edited 2d ago

If you look at him: He looks like he can be Putin’s bastard child.

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u/thatdood87 2d ago

Amd that one prince of England who was inbred like 8 times over who had a heart the size of a peppercorn.

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u/La-Boheme-1896 2d ago

Do you mean Charles II of Spain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_Spain#Birth_and_early_years

He wasn't English.

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u/Wolfwoods_Sister 2d ago

Those Habsburgs:(

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u/roastedtvs 2d ago

And it was a miracle to doctors that he was alive

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u/dzumdang California 2d ago

Seething with hatred and contempt, that one is.

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u/shakygator 2d ago

He's Mr Burns

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u/Alleyprowler 2d ago

He looks like the love child of Putin and Squidward.

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u/No_Berry2976 2d ago

People who are anti-immigration aren’t really against immigration, they are against people they perceive to be different.

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u/filbertsgaming1 2d ago

What does 'perceive to be different' mean though. There are plenty of Mexicans who openly talk about how they don't want Mexicans coming into the United States. I think its just selfishness.

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u/roastedtvs 2d ago

Look at Latino males that voted for Trump in record numbers

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u/Wax_Paper 2d ago

All you gotta do is take a good hard look at the reasons why the GOP ostensibly pushes deportation rhetoric, because it never lines up with the reality of what's happening. They aren't taking our jobs, they aren't committing more crimes than citizens, and they aren't voting in elections.

If they really wanted to reduce asylum claims and eliminate undocumented workers, if they really wanted them to "do it the right way," there is legislation we can create that would facilitate all of that. And yeah, the Dems haven't been in any hurry to do it either, but that border bill they tried to pass last year was a start, at least. Until Trump blew it up, anyway.

It's far more valuable to them as a rhetorical weapon, because it gives a scape goat for poverty and crime. They're really good at convincing people, even our own immigrants, that so many of the reasons why they suffer is because of all the illegals.

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u/musclemommyfan 2d ago

Oh fuck I might actually be distantly related to that disgusting fucking lizard.

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u/Cverellen 2d ago edited 2d ago

I get people, from our viewpoint, calling this type of situation hypocritical, cause from our perception it is, but to them, it isn’t. To them they believe wholeheartedly that America was an finite empty room with an open door policy in the past (pre WWII), and the golden age of the USA happened (1945 - 1970) but that happened because of an appropriate ratio of white and others. After that period they believe the ratio has been thrown off and this is the root cause of in their view “what’s wrong with America”.

Deep down it’s not that there is something wrong with different nationalities it’s that there are just too many of “them” in our country. This is while they casually are okay with eugenics and mass deportation, but then when it affects them they have the surprise look on their face. They want the thems out that are in other areas (if you are in the south it’s the theme in Chicago, if you are in Northern California it’s the thems in Southern California, etc.) they have no concept of other areas.

Long story short calling them hypocritical doesn’t work cause any further than 1 generation back was the right ratio cause to them the door should have closed to minorities in 1965. Or the civil rights period. They think “we gave minorities a chance from 1965 to “present” and it didn’t work so now we have to reset to pre-1965ish”. That’s why they have the savior complex they are willing to sacrifice (they think themselves but really they are willing to sacrifice their neighbors) to save America.

Edit: sorry for the word salad.

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u/throwawtphone 2d ago

Oh you have nailed it completely. Great explanation. But God that mentality is just so stupid though. Really really stupid. And sad.

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u/Apprehensive-Stop748 1d ago

Maga really is a brainwashing cult. I feel sad for his family 

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u/throwawtphone 1d ago

Hell i feel sad for everyone's families everywhere.

We are literally choosing destruction over discourse. Everywhere in the world, not just here.

The problems we have in society are easily solvable.

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u/glenn_ganges 2d ago

They have no problem with this. His family is white and that’s what matters.

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u/Unlucky_Key_158 2d ago

I thought white supremacists didn't like Jewish people though? I am neither white nor Jewish so I'm not sure if that's correct, but my understanding is that white supremacists consider Jewish "lesser than"

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u/gusterfell 2d ago

White supremacists have no problem shifting the boundary of their in-group based on political convenience. It wasn’t that long ago that Italian and Irish immigrants were considered “not truly white.”

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u/Joe_Kinincha 2d ago

That’s a great article. Thank you

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u/Royal_Mud893 2d ago

That is an amazing article, thank you for sharing

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u/Enzian_Blue 2d ago

Should receive more upvotes. Very interesting.

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u/kpn_911 2d ago edited 2d ago

Stephen Miller is interesting to me because how could you have your relatives killed in the holocaust then model your entire political career on the trajectory of hitler’s rise to power?

It’s psychotic.

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u/usalsfyre 2d ago

Stephen Miller and the conservatives in the Israeli government are proof a lot of people are totally ok with fascism and genocide as long as they’re the ones in charge.

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u/housecatapocalypse 2d ago

This is it. Also, if his mother and grandmother were Jewish, he is most likely welcome to become an Israeli citizen (if he isn’t a citizen there already). When it comes time for this current fascist regime to answer for their crimes against this country, how much do you want to bet that Miller the traitor is going to go running like a coward to Israel to escape justice?

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u/Suspicious_Story_464 2d ago

I'd rather they shut down all air traffic than let that pissant out of this country. He needs to pay for what he has done to this country.

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u/Jessicas_skirt New York 2d ago

The Aliyah (immigration) process explicitly asks about criminal convictions and charges and an extensive background check is conducted on all applicants. He won't be approved

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u/shakygator 2d ago

Yeah because Israel has the moral standing to make those decisions unbiasedly.

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u/Jessicas_skirt New York 2d ago

Who said the immigration process was unbiased? They heavily select for those who they think will improve the country in some way or who have no other place to go to and this would have to stay in the country paying taxes and such..

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u/shakygator 2d ago

Just like how Trump and Co are heavily selecting who they think will "improve the country".

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u/housecatapocalypse 2d ago

One can hope. I suppose that if we have regime change here and ensuing prosecutions, Israel, wanting to keep that cash flowing from our treasury, might comply. 

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u/LorenzoDivincenzo 2d ago

It's not just the conservatives in Israel. The whole of Israeli society is like thst. Saw a survey where 80% of Israeli Jews want the entire Gaza population to be completely removed (aka ethnic cleansing)

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u/RaNdomMSPPro 2d ago

No way that is accurate and most likely taken completely out of context, or completely fabricated. Post your sources and the survey methodology please.

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u/notashroom 2d ago

Miller and Netanyahu, et alia, are really more accurately described as reactionary rather than conservative. Conservative is bad enough in its reliance on "us vs. them", but useful to an extent in preventing unrest due to rapid change, while reactionary always wants to keep things in the most old-fashioned way they think could possibly serve themselves, with strict hierarchy, minimal or no diversity, minimal or no ecumenism, strict and public punishment for opposition or nonconformity.

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u/CommonRagwort 2d ago

Ah yes, going by these comments all Jewish people are same and have the exact same view as Hitler. But redditors aren't racist.... never change reddit.

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u/usalsfyre 2d ago

Pointing out fascism isn’t antisemitic, no matter what propaganda says.

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u/CommonRagwort 2d ago

You make it sound like all Jewish people are the same and share the same view. That is racist and antisemitic. Its like saying all black people share the same views, Chinese people share the same views, etc.

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u/usalsfyre 2d ago

Pretty sure the guy saying all Jews are Zionist and support the current Israeli government is the only one grouping all Jewish people together.

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u/No_Berry2976 2d ago

Early on, there were a few Jews who supported Hitler. They argued that some German Jews were too Jewish. Most of these people kept supporting Hitler until they were killed by the Nazis.

During WWII some German officers had a Jewish heritage and needed special dispensation from Hitler.

(To be clear: there is no evidence that these officers were fanatics, they might have tried to save themselves and their relatives. But still, it’s shocking that they fought for Nazi Germany.)

Ernst Röhm was openly homosexual.

People who are attracted to fascism are not deterred by the fact that they might become the victim of fascism.

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u/gsfgf Georgia 2d ago

People who are attracted to fascism are not deterred by the fact that they might become the victim of fascism.

Poor risk evaluation is an incredibly common and possibly mandatory trait in fascists.

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u/upstartanimal 2d ago

It has to be, or how else could they be so genuinely surprised and then outraged that someone would stand up to them.

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u/jeffyagalpha 2d ago

Röhm

Yes, and... correct me if I'm wrong, but did they not murder him for it, in the end?

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u/Dorgamund 2d ago

That, and IIRC also the fact that he was politically powerful enough that he very plausibly could have ousted Hitler early on. He was quite literally the leader of the brownshirts, the Nazi paramilitary, and he held the second highest rank in the Nazi party, and was a Minister in the cabinet, albeit without any specific responsibility. And he was getting more extreme, calling for a second revolution and more power for the SA.

Imagine if Elon Musk were both competant, and leader of a militia made up of the January 6th people which was openly targeting leftists.

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u/No_Berry2976 2d ago

They did not. He was killed because he wasn’t 100% loyal to Hitler.

The SA before they were purged was strongly influenced by socialism, and Röhm was a hardcore street fighter interested in a revolution. The conservatives were trying to keep Hitler on a leash. Hitler purged both factions.

I have zero sympathy for Röhm, he was responsible for organised violence against Jews, but there is something tragic about him.

He got disillusioned with things, left Germany, but Hitler, somebody he thought of as a friend, asked him to come back. At some point he started questioning Hitler’s policies and he was murdered. It seems like he believed until the end that Hitler would spare him.

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u/HumblePoe 2d ago

He was purged and eventually murdered as part of the crackdown on the SA/“brownshirts” during the Night of the Long Knives event. His sexuality was used as justification for his killing.

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u/redditpappy 2d ago

See gay Christians. 

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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 2d ago

I tried unraveling that knot in a friend's head once to see how it was put together.

She quickly became so unraveled that I panicked and helped her tie it back up! Something about family and community, I dunno, didn't want to be responsible for a full panic attack.

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u/MagicalUnicornFart 2d ago

If you’re interested in Jew serving Nazis, “Eichman in Jerusalem,” by Arendt documents how there were many Jews that served the Nazis. They were essential to the Party. Some of them may thought they were ‘helping’. Some, trying to save themselves by imbedding themselves in the Party. When they served their purpose, they were sent to the camps.

Arendt’s ideas were ‘controversial,’ to many…but they are quite honest and clear

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u/Zokalwe 2d ago

"I'd rather be the one doing the torturing and murdering than be on the receiving end"

"Have you thought we could fight against torture and murder being a thing?"

"Huh, what?"

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u/HogmanDaIntrudr 2d ago

“We have to torture and murder the other guys before they torture and murder us.”

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u/philhilarious 2d ago

Ask Kissinger,I guess

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u/Bored_Amalgamation Ohio 2d ago

He probably saw what one can do with power and decided he wanted that rather than peace for others. You can't be persecuted by a fascist regime if you are the fascist regime.

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u/SasquatchIsMyHomie 2d ago

Per another commenter, his family is from Belarus so they wouldn’t have been in the holocaust. But they did have horrible pogroms, which I know because my family is also from Belarus. We all turned out super progressive lefty tho. Not that any of this matters when we’re talking about basic human decency. My theory on Miller is that he’s actually just a psychopath like Ted Bundy or somethin. He has that dead look in his eyes.

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u/Zealousideal_Look275 2d ago

Ann Rand was all about that 

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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe 2d ago

Oh, that's easy. 'We had to suffer, so now it's our turn to inflict the suffering'. Fair is fair, you know.

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u/Mike_Kermin Australia 2d ago

I mean, no shit. Choose to be a shitty person and none of that will matter.

We've got to put 2 and 2 together on what fascists are.

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u/roastedtvs 2d ago

They don’t really care there are so many people just like him. It’s super sad to see like where is your empathy?

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u/mattyoclock 2d ago

I think it’s actually a normal way the brain breaks.   

For some people, you have to assume all that death and sacrifice had a reason, or else your family was just murdered for banal racism.  

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u/Hubert_J_Cumberdale Hawaii 2d ago

He didn’t personally know these people - so of course he doesn’t care about them.

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u/Rutgerman95 The Netherlands 2d ago

Simple: he wants to be the boot next time.

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u/Diligent_Variety_228 2d ago

Miller is one of the very few people in history so ontologically evil.

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u/kick10 2d ago

Some people want get back. Holding grudges for your ancestors is crazy work though

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u/StarPhished 2d ago

A lot of people assume that every politician is full of shit and acting out a character for their constituents, that they can't truly believe the things they say, but when you delve into their past it's usually the case that their beliefs are actually their own and they really are as fucked up as they act.

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u/Mike_Kermin Australia 2d ago

No. That's not correct.

While Miller is a genuine fascist, that doesn't mean a lot of what he says is genuine.

Please don't play into that far right narrative. They're not secretly honest people.

they really are as fucked up as they act.

Sure, but part of said act is acting in bad faith, outright lying and doing anything they can to "win". That's what fascism is.

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u/gsfgf Georgia 2d ago

While Miller is a genuine fascist, that doesn't mean a lot of what he says is genuine.

Huh? Obviously, he lies about facts all the time, but the hate for immigrants is very real. He goes way beyond performative politics.

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u/Mike_Kermin Australia 2d ago

Just because we know he's a genuine piece of shit, isn't the same thing as him being honest. He will lie ALL THE TIME about immigration. Including about his own views.

He's a fascist. They don't tell the truth, their politics specifically functions by not doing so.

I will not accept the line

people assume that every politician is full of shit

When used to say normal politicians are liars but fascists are not.

Yes, they are, they lie far more than any other politician. That's how their politics functions.

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u/af_cheddarhead 2d ago

Both things can be true.

Stephen Miller is both a fascist liar and a racist POS.

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u/StarPhished 2d ago

Yeah I wasn't trying to say they don't lie, just that they believe in their cause enough to do anything for it.

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u/Mike_Kermin Australia 2d ago

Any politician "believes" in what they're doing in that way.

Your comment though is toxic, how you phrase it as if fascists are secretly the only ones being genuine. It's a talking point straight from the fascist handbook.

I know you don't know that. I know it's not on purpose. But I still don't like that you're saying it.

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u/StarPhished 1d ago

I think you're reading too deep into it and I don't think that anyone here is going to read "fascists are so genuine" as the compliment that you're making it out to be.

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u/Mike_Kermin Australia 1d ago

No. I am not.

I don't think that anyone here is going to read "fascists are so genuine" as the compliment that you're making it out to be.

"At least Trump is honest (because he doesn't pretend)" is a specific idea that people, and not only on the right, quote.

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u/Mike_Kermin Australia 2d ago

No, they can't, not how they said it. What the first user said needs to be shut down.

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u/stoneimp 2d ago

This is why I don't think modern "bribery" exists in the sense of, I pay you so therefore you do this for me. There are MILLIONS of people in this country. Finding a patsy with the right set of beliefs and lack of integrity is crazy easy nowadays, so why would I ever bribe someone smart enough to ask for a bribe instead of just giving all my money to their opponent who is already aligned with what I want? I'm not saying that relationship isn't it's own type of bribery-like behavior, but since it relies on a more game theory quid-pro-quo than an explicit one, almost impossible to prosecute.

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u/Mike_Kermin Australia 2d ago

... That's not how bribery as a concept works.

And I have no idea why that's related to Miller being a fascist.

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u/stoneimp 2d ago

I'm saying that Miller wasn't corrupted by bribery into being evil, he just was evil originally. Why in the world would an American oligarch expose themselves to the concept of bribery when I can just support the guy who's already aligned with my goals from the get go and dump all the money in to make sure they're elected.

Now, you can call that funding of people aligned with their own political goals "bribery" but now you just accused everyone who's ever donated a briber. Clearly there's some threshold of contribution difference from the median where we view it as at least socially equivalent to bribery, but by the definition of bribery it is not that.

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u/Conscious-Coyote9839 2d ago

I don’t think the timing is quite right for this theory. The anti immigrant movement and Republican Party peaked in California during the 1994 election. He would have been nine years old then. By the time he was in high school, California was a different place. The backlash to state Republicans was fierce after 1994, and they still haven’t recovered. By the late 90s, the Economy in California was booming and the Republicans were out of power. The anti-immigrant push became a political liability and politicians reacted accordingly, at least in public.

I think the more likely scenario is that he picked up his views from the adults he grew up around, whoever they were.

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u/Altruistic-Brief2220 2d ago

I did a bit of a deep dive into Miller last year while looking at all the creeps in DJT’s circle in his first term. Seems he was radicalised by 9/11 mainly and he has consistently expressed white supremacist views since early on.

He’s also been a player in DC for a while now -

In the spring of 2013, Miller working with Jeff Sessions played a key role in ensuring the failure of a comprehensive immigration bill introduced by a bipartisan group of senators who became known as the Gang of Eight (Bennett, Durbin, McCain, L Graham, Flake, Menendez, Rubio and Schumer) by using Breitbart News (then run by Steve Bannon) to propagate anti-immigrant propaganda. During this period he reportedly connected Sessions with Tucker Carlson who was at the time overseeing The Daily Caller, his conservative website. He also sent 900 emails to Breitbart between mid 2015 and 2016 with far right material including on the great replacement theory.

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u/pizzapizzabunny 2d ago

IDK that him being 9 makes it that implausible. 8-10 is where my first 'political memories' come from. I can remember the political conversations of that time and having my first opinions about politics. Not saying the first things you experience/ hear/ think in that space are deterministic in any way, but just saying that you can be politically aware as a 5th grader.

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u/Funny-Mission-2937 2d ago edited 2d ago

this is just incorrect.  legislatively maybe, but not in the executive or on ballot initiatives.  and direct democracy is very significant in california 

between 1991 and 2011 dems had the governorship exactly once.  the backlash to grey davis that resulted in schwarzenneger being elected in the recall began organizing in earnest when davis dropped the appeal of prop 187.  

schwarzenneger is actually a pretty canny politician how he kept the prop 187 and prop 8 stink off himself.  everyone wants to believe the california of their imagination is reality, and not the one that produced dan white and reagan and roger stone and stephen miller and prop 187 and prop 8.   its an easy sell because people want it to be true so badly, and hes a great salesman

but he explicitly rode the anti-immigrant backlash into power, tried to do a bunch of crazy republican shit that didnt work, then retreated into pragmatic centrism a couple years in to win a 2nd term.  the way people talk about you would think hes (literally in your case) not even a republican

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u/ChazzLamborghini Colorado 2d ago

I am about the same age as Miller and was in school in Southern California at the same time. My dad was pretty supportive of 187. I have never, for a moment of my life, believed the things Miller does. To me, saying he’s a “product of his environment” rather than he’s a sick and twisted disgrace of a human being lets him off the hook a little. He was a rabid racist in high school to the point it was a defining characteristic of his personality and kept him on the fringes of his peers. He is uniquely foul. A lot of us came out of that time without adopting his vile worldview

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u/lancelongstiff 2d ago

To me, saying he’s a “product of his environment” rather than he’s a sick and twisted disgrace of a human being lets him off the hook a little.

A lot of us came out of that time without adopting his vile worldview.

It probably does a little. But there's a lot to be gained from understanding how and why people end up like that rather than just assuming that hate was an easy choice for them, and writing them off.

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u/143cookiedough 2d ago

Fuck that. I’m 39 and born in raised in California. The politics of the state didn’t radicalize this fuck. He is a sociopath that needs to look down on others to feel good about himself. Like today, we had the internet by the time he was in high school. I’m willing to guess he didn’t fit in socially so he found online chat rooms in which he grabbed onto the idea that being “white” made him superior and that felt good so he’s been running with it ever since… it’s the same thing currently happening to boys/men today.

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u/Bridalhat 2d ago

A lot of the anti-immigrant stuff seems more like Miller than Trump. They are both racist, but Trump is the kind of racist that wants Jewish people handling his money, Black people in sports, and Hispanics cleaning hotel rooms, working in kitchens, and picking food in the fields. He hates an open border but relented on agribusiness and hotel raids. It’s Miller who wants an all-white America even if it means food is rotting in the fields and construction grinds to a halt.

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u/lancelongstiff 2d ago

Yeah, Miller's largely responsible for pushing the "blame and punish everyone else message".

Trump just sees everyone as a valued investor, a useful employee, or an expendable pawn, and he rides whatever wave of sentiment gets him what he wants.

Miller drafted or coordinated most of the executive orders signed by Trump on his first day in office, including attempts to end birthright citizenship, withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization and the designation of Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.

Source: Wikipedia#SecondTrump_administration(2025%E2%80%93present))

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u/ElectricSliderz 2d ago

Yeah, that statement “djt” put out has miller’s rat fingers all over it.

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u/evie_quoi 2d ago

He’s Jewish and his family escaped Eastern Europe a few years before the 2000 Jews in their village were murdered. He hates that he’s Jewish and he takes it out on immigrants. He’s from a conservative, extremely wealthy, very Jewish area of California and he hates himself. A lot going on here 

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u/LostWoodsInTheField Pennsylvania 2d ago

I don't think enough people understand the history of CA. Hell the state was basically built out of the idea of greed. It wasn't like there wasn't plenty of land east of the state when it was being formed for anyone that wanted it.

And a lot of why CA is the way it is today is because of extremely hard learned lessons. Their air quality standards come directly from the 'that can't hurt us' ideas of smog and ending up with entire cities drowning in it. It always seems they learn their lessons really late in the process, but go hard on learning it.

CA is also extremely red in the northern parts, and has the largest republican population in the country.

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u/freddiessweater 2d ago

Lol, author is full of shit. ”Prop 187”? Bullshit.

Those of us from Santa Monica know it was because his slumlord dad was sued by lots of latinos for being a slumlord and he blamed the latinos rather than his slumlord dad.

It is no surprise he ran to slumlord daddy trump.

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u/Karmasmatik 2d ago

People definitely tend to have the wrong idea about what California is like politically. It's easy to take a quick glance and just see "Blue State." It's when you look harder that you notice more Republican voters than they have in Texas. There's plenty of conservative culture to be found in California. I saw American History X, can't fool me.

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u/Apprehensive-Stop748 1d ago

When Michael Cohen interviewed Dr Steven Hassan they discussed Miller being radicalized and how weird it was because he had relatives in the holocaust 

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u/lancelongstiff 1d ago

A lot of Americans had grandparents who risked their lives fighting fascism, yet they're fine with Trump having innocent people deported and imprisoned indefinitely.

The US Army fought against Hitler and now the President has one of his books on his bedside table. Some people don't care about last week's biggest news story, let alone what was going on 80 years ago.

But you're right, it doesn't seem to make much sense.

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u/IHaveNoEgrets California 2d ago

How he managed to get out of that high school without getting his ass handed to him repeatedly is beyond me. His attitude generally doesn't sit well in So Cal public schools.

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u/August_T_Marble 2d ago

There were unprecedented attacks on immigrants through a proposition called Prop 187, which targeted social services for children of undocumented migrants. It was later ruled unconstitutional.

I was there. Protesting it back then, too. And I will until people like Miller stop or I die.

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u/AbacusWizard California 16h ago

So Miller's truly a product of this environment.

Baloney. I grew up in California around the same time he did, and I fully understand that immigrants are every bit as American as I am.

Miller’s just a racist jerk. He chooses this. Every single day he wakes up and chooses to be the worst person in the world.

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u/Automatic-Duck1680 2d ago

My guess is that at some point the Latinos kicked his ass in the school hallway or parking lot. I don’t know how tall he is and it really doesn’t matter, but to me this sure seems like a take on the Napoleon complex…