In the White House adviser’s view, violent rhetoric is allowed only when he and Trump are the ones spewing it.

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Yesterday, Stephen Miller delivered a eulogy for Charlie Kirk that served as a battle cry for the Trump administration’s state-sponsored war on his perceived foes—a war for which Miller is the primary strategist. The speech was a jarring piece of rhetoric. It is a perfect encapsulation of the ethos of Trumpism, boiling away the president’s idiosyncratic habits of mixing insult comedy and weird digressions into his rhetoric and leaving, in Miller’s tongue, the residue of pure ideology and will to power.

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.

  • PhilipTheBucket@quokk.auEnglish
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    5 days ago

    It’s so, so much worse. It’s incredibly bizarre, and Katie Miller’s eerie lack of offense-taking at the whole thing just makes it extra frightening. I do think she’s uncomfortable, you can see it a little bit, but mostly she’s just smiling and smoothly deflecting to some safe topic of conversation. It’s so fucking bizarre. Watters finishes up by talking about bringing in cameras so everyone can see what it looks like when her and Stephen are fucking.