The Bernhard Perspective

THE IRONIC FATE OF STEPHEN MILLER

All you citizens of a beloved, multi-cultural America, just listen to T**** advisor Stephen Miller’s rage-induced defense of civilization. Listen to him using the term “our” when mentioning ancestry that dates back to places with predominantly white populations. Just listen:

”Our lineage and our legacy hails back to Athens, to Rome, to Philadelphia, to Monticello. Our ancestors built the cities, they produced the architecture, they built the industry. [people like him and Charlie Kirk] stand for what is good. And to those trying to incite violence against us, those trying to foment hate against us, what do you have? You have nothing, you are nothing, You are wickedness, you are jealousy, you are envy, you are hatred. You are nothing. You can build nothing, you can produce nothing, you can create nothing. We are the ones who build, we are the ones who create, we are the ones who lift up humanity.”

So who are the “us” and the “we” that Miller refers to? That is important because he is clearly separating humanity into two categories, those who can and those who cannot. Looking at the history of Western civilization over the last millennium and a half, and in the contemporary context of T****’s ascension to autocratic power, Miller is clearly referring to white Christians.

And just who are the “you” that Miller castigates so mercilessly? Who are the wicked? the jealous? those who have nothing? Well, it’s certainly not white people, so it has to be people of color: Black and Brown people. Asians. It has to be Hindus and Moslems as well. And so it is. Now, Miller evidences a profound ignorance of human history when he makes these assertions. That, however, is grist for another mill.

But Miller has a severe case of self-denial, here. That is because Stephen Miller is a Jew. And one truth that Miller apparently will not acknowledge is that for T**** and the MAGA’s, the Christian Nationalists, the white supremacists and anti-semitics who make up his base of support, Jews are not considered to be white. To them they are a separate, inferior race, the hatred of which extends back over a millennium. He choses to forget that Jews were so-defined by no less than Adolph Hitler.

The purges have already begun, and the list of this administration’s enemies includes not just individuals. T**** and his MAGA’s are in the process of suppressing Black people and are already coming after Brown people. They have been vilifying Moslems for decades. It does not end there.

Because although Stephen Miller may have convinced himself that his whole-hearted MAGA advocacy will protect him, some fourteen hundred years of Western civilization strongly suggests otherwise. And if they cannot be stopped, with or without his personal acknowledgment T****’s ruling class of Christian Nationalists, racists and anti-Semitic bigots will eventually come for the Jews.

And when they do, they will come for Stephen Miller, too.