Henry Giroux: STEPHEN MILLER'S BARBARISM

Thank you, Henry Giroux! Excellent! Terrifying! This profoundly wounded and violent man is severed from his heart and soul. And it simply cannot be overstated how dangerous Stephen Miller is. What we see here is without doubt the face of a psychopath. While I’ve been sharing a lot about frogs and peaceful protests in Portland, we must never forget how dangerous these times of fascism and mass dehumanization are. This is why we expose and stand up and say NO! in every way that we can to the profound cruelty, corruption, criminality, injustice, and democracy crushing agendas and practices of the pathological administration currently in power in America. We are truly all needed and all in this together! — Molly

Trump's Stephen Miller is today's version of Hitler's Joseph Goebbels

Stephen Miller's Barbarism

By Henry Giroux

This ranting speech on 'Children will be taught to love America' by Stephen Miller could have been lifted whole from the fascist culture of the 1930s. It seethes with ideological fanaticism, dehumanizing rage, ecstatic ignorance, and paranoic rigidity, laced together by a torrent of lies. The feverish spirit of hate, myth, and moral corruption it embodies is not merely reminiscent of fascism—it is its reincarnation. What we are witnessing is not political rhetoric but the language of purification, abduction, disappearance, and contempt that once paved the road to the Nazi state.

What makes Miller’s tirade so terrifying is not only its celebration of political purity on steroids, but its virulent hatred of education itself, of thought, reflection, and moral agency. He despises any institution or idea capable of producing critical consciousness, civic courage, or empathy grounded in responsibility for others. His words reek of fear: fear of knowledge, fear of imagination, fear of justice, fear of democracy. He is the unholy fusion of Wallace’s racial fury and Joseph Goebbels’s propaganda zeal—a figure in whom fanaticism and hatred converge, resurrecting the ghost of white supremacy in its purest, most vindictive form.

This is barbarism made flesh—a grotesque performance of cruelty dressed up as conviction, ignorance weaponized into ideology. And what should alarm us most is how such fascist rhetoric, once unthinkable, now circulates openly—validated, amplified, and echoed at the highest levels of power. In this climate, silence becomes complicity, and the corrosion of democratic culture advances not through coups or decrees, but through the slow normalization of authoritarian ideology, cruelty and lies.

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