There was a clear progression here: Miller started by claiming it was fascist to moderate the speech of explicit Neo-Nazis and other white supremacists, but eventually he came to use it about Democrats generally, particularly the Black prosecutors who deigned to prosecute Trump for crimes others also get prosecuted for.

If Miller believes the word fascist inevitably leads to violent targeting, then he needs to be prosecuted himself for the violent threats that Trump’s prosecutors faced, or that immediately plagued Nina Jankowicz.

And while Miller generally stopped using the word fascist after Harris referenced John Kelly’s use of it to apply to Trump (as part of an effort to blame Democrats because a registered Republican who also considered targeting Biden shot at Trump), to this day — even in this speech — Miller uses dehumanizing language every chance he gets. He simply uses “Marxist” or “communist” or “radical” instead.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Stephen Miller is such a little dweeb who obviously has problems, and I’m just so tired of his rhetoric.

    I bet anything that, even with all the evidence to the contrary, that if something Kirk-like were to happen to him, there would be all these “moderates” falling all over themselves about what a truly great human being he was, that he was all for free speech, that he just wanted to unite the country and other ridiculous things…

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      17 hours ago

      I don’t know if anyone could really muster that for Miller. He’s hated as much as Ted Cruz, by both the left and the right.