Deep thanks, as always, to Henry Giroux. Such an excellent piece! And illuminating Miller's projections as rooted in "a deep, unresolved self-loathing displaced outward and weaponized" is absolutely spot on. Chronic hatred of an "Other" is always something absorbed as self-loathing at a young and very vulnerable age. Steven Miller is the embodiment of deep unaddressed trauma — something which as an adult in a position of great power makes him especially dangerous. And, obviously, the same is true for the current president of the United States and those who fill his administration.
I am also moved to add this image of Steven Miller because we need to recognize the face of fascism and understand its widespread horrifying consequences. We need to see the face, the ideology, the pathology behind the scenes and standing out in front blatantly announcing the justification and glorification of violence and hatred, racism and dehumanization, power and domination, and fascist entitlement, delusion, and psychopathy. We need to understand the danger that we are in. We need to see Steven Miller and the fascist administration he is an integral part of for what it is AND we stand in fierce protection of all that we hold near and dear and of all of life everywhere. We are all connected, all family, all in this together! — Molly
GOEBBELS ON STEROIDS
Stephen Miller seems torn from the darkest archive of the 1930s. His ideological fever, spittle-laced tirades, compulsive lying, and theatrical rage are not excesses but instruments, performative rituals through which cruelty is normalized and racism is taught.
What he stages is not only a ruthless infatuation with power and an updated fascist racist politics but also a psychic unraveling masquerading as authority. The spirit animating his rhetoric, saturated with hate, fabrication, and manic spectacle, recalls a historical moment when cruelty became a governing principle and racism the moral grammar of the state.
Miller is a grotesque figure granted power, a carnival barker of repression whose racism operates as projection: a deep, unresolved self-loathing displaced outward and weaponized. In targeting immigrants, dissenters, Muslims, and all those outside the narrow confines of white Christian nationalism, he seeks not order but purification, not truth but erasure, transforming inner emptiness into a politics of collective punishment.
His fear of dissent, people of color, and the very idea of law is not merely rhetorical, it is visceral. It surfaces in his permanent war mentality, his embrace of imperial aggression, and his eagerness to militarize both domestic governance and foreign policy. His unhinged defenses of the kidnapping of Venezuela’s president and his wife, along with his casual assertion that Greenland “rightfully” belongs to the United States, reveal a fascist worldview in which legality is meaningless and sovereignty collapses before brute force. For him, law does not restrain power; it sanctifies it.
This contempt for ethical and political responsibility is laid bare in his declaration on CNN that the world is governed not by justice or rights but by “strength,” “force,” and “power,” which he calls the “iron laws” of history. This is not the language of realism; it is the creed of authoritarianism. It echoes the vocabulary of Hitler and the Third Reich, where politics was reduced to struggle, morality dismissed as weakness, and domination elevated to destiny. In this worldview, might becomes truth, violence becomes virtue, and the rule of law is replaced by the racialized mythology of survival through conquest. In Orwell’s warning that when the clock strikes thirteen something has gone terribly wrong, Miller’s language marks precisely that moment—when power openly declares itself the only truth, domination becomes common sense, and fascist lies no longer bother to disguise themselves as reality.
What Miller models is authoritarian pedagogy at work, teaching people how to think, how to feel, and who to despise. In this way, he helps manufacture the fascist subject, training audiences to confuse domination with strength, obedience with virtue, and dehumanization with patriotism. His politics does not simply echo the architecture of a Nazi state; it rehearses it daily, disciplining the public to accept exclusion, erasure, moral collapse, and racial terror as common sense.
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