Miller’s profoundly racist and ethnophobic worldview needs to be challenged at every turn, but as long as it is shared by the President, nothing much can change at the upper echelons of the US government.
From the article:
” Stephen Miller’s rant about a “self-loathing” America was swamped by online backlash as critics lined up to credit immigrants with America’s biggest leaps.
Miller, 40, Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy and hardliner immigration czar, fired off a late-night X post on Sunday, complaining that the modern world does not match “what our ancestors imagined” because America and the West supposedly spent generations in “a vast, consuming project of self-loathing, self-denigration and the redistribution of our national resources.”
It followed an earlier post from the previous evening, where Miller wrote: “Someone should write an alternate historical novel where Americans are the first to master the automobile, the first in flight, the first to harness the atom, the first to land on the moon—but just keep going and never open our borders to the entire third world for sixty years.”
Suggesting that technological advances had faded away due to immigration, he’d added: “For those who don’t know, the U.S. had negative migration for the half century between the first nonstop transatlantic flight and the moon landing.”
But Miller’s reading of history was derided for being myopic, misleading, and hypocritical, since Miller himself is a descendant of Jewish immigrants who fled persecution abroad and built a successful life for themselves.
Jon Favreau, Barack Obama’s former speechwriter and a host of Pod Save America, led the pile-on. “You’re only here because America decided to welcome your family when they were refugees fleeing poverty and violence,” he replied, before skewering Miller as a rich kid from California who rose through elite schools into an administration run by “insanely rich elites” who’ve “made themselves even richer” through “open corruption.”
“Maybe, since you’re in charge of it, you can take some responsibility for the modern world not looking like what your ethnic minority refugee ancestors might have imagined,” he wrote.
Journalist Mehdi Hasan, who runs media outlet Zeteo, urged Miller to “learn to use Google,” which he noted would have easily shown that an Egyptian-American Muslim scientist named Dr. Farouk El-Baz helped pick Apollo landing sites and train astronauts for NASA’s moon-landing.
Others also rebutted Miller on his technological timeline. Several X users rattled off a list of immigrant innovators behind iconic breakthroughs, from German engineer Karl Benz’s car to Italian-born physicist Enrico Fermi’s work on the atom, reminding Miller that Neil Armstrong was also the descendant of European immigrants.
They noted that without immigrant scientists and engineers, America would not have reached the moon, developed color TV, or built much of its modern economy.
Some users argued that postwar foreign aid was not “self-denigration,” but an assertion of strength aimed at helping weaker nations adapt American values. Another pointed out that Miller’s “redistribution of resources to the undeveloped world” argument collapses under “basic arithmetic,” noting that foreign aid is roughly 1 percent of federal spending.
Miller’s posts also revived a long-running charge of hypocrisy against him.
As Trump’s immigration policy lead, and the driving force behind the administration’s 3,000 daily deportations target, Miller has pushed for mass arrests, drastic cuts to refugee admissions, and the rollback of protections for more than a million people—policies critics say would have barred families like his from ever arriving.
Miller’s own cousin, Alisa Kasmer, condemned his anti-immigration crusade earlier this month, saying their Jewish great-grandparents had fled persecution and successfully rebuilt their lives in the United States. Kasmer accused him of “trying to take away the exact thing that his own family benefited from.”
The Daily Beast has contacted Miller for comment. “
Sojum on
Evil Caillou is a walking hypocritical hate-machine. There’s no new news here.
Every time I see Stephen Miller he reminds me of a circumcised male genitalia. I just can’t unsee it 🤭
sagetraveler on
Or maybe we should have started another world war and bombed the industrial base of every other nation so we could stay ahead while working half as hard as everyone else had to. What an absolute fucked up version of history this is.
Stimbes on
Pee Wee Himmler is a fragile snowflake who is extremely scared of brown people.
phazonphazoff on
Stephen Miller deserves to rot in a lightless cell and I hope it happens one day.
RunAwayBeerTruk on
I didn’t think Nazis would reincarnate as themselves.
TintedApostle on
“FROM the nature of despotic power it follows, that the single person, invested with this power, commits the execution of it also to a single person. A man, whom his senses continually inform that he himself is every thing, and his subjects nothing, is naturally lazy, voluptuous, and ignorant. In consequence of this, he neglects the management of public affairs. But, were he to commit the administration to many, there would be continual disputes among them; each would form intrigues to be his first slave, and he would be obliged to take the reins into his own hands. It is, therefore, more natural for him to resign it to a vizir, and to invest him with the same power as himself. The creation of a vizir is a fundamental law of this government.” **<- You are Here**
– Baron de Montesquieu The Spirit of Laws – 1777
curtass7 on
He’s only 40? He looks soooo much older. 🤣
Gruejay2 on
Holy shit – that man’s only 40? No wonder he hates himself.
Theonewho_hasspoken on
Him mentioning the moon landing his hilarious given it was made possible by German Immigrant scientists, also our work on the atom/atom bomb too (Einstein helped on the project and was an immigrant, and German and Polish scientists had done a lot of foundational physics in the early 20th). This man has no grasp of history and a micro penis, which is why he is so fucking angry.
Jesus_le_Crisco on
How come these fascists don’t realize that if you are white in America you are descendant from immigrants?
silsum on
History won’t be kind to this man.
Crow290 on
Today is the day I learned that miller is barely older than me. They really do just age like milk, remember kids hate and racism will age you faster than time.
Glad-Process-3268 on
There is an old video of him when he was in high school. His friends are at the back of the school bus, not a woman in sight, making racist jokes. Little has changed; this whole administration is full of racist suburban kids who feel entitled to the world.
Frogacuda on
So many people fundamentally misunderstand the achievements of man through the lens of exceptionalism and individualism, which leads them down this whole stupid path to a quest for purity or an ubermensch, but even a basic understanding of history proves it’s literally the opposite.
Progress is never about the individual, societies advance fastest in places where there is the most communication and cultural exchange with the largest number of people. This is why port cities and trade centers became advanced civilizations and rural villages and hermit kingdoms would seem centuries behind them. Individual people, even very smart ones, are not as smart as large numbers of people collaborating on a problem.
America succeeded by redefining a lot of the norms around nationalism and attracting talented and ambitious people from around the globe. This is literally the entire reason for American supremacy throughout the 20th century, and it’s painfully apparent that if we try to undo all that we’ll have a dumber and less prosperous country.
barneyrubbble on
Miller and his ilk are really fucking hilarious. They draw their entire worldview from a history that they just fucking made up. They really have the reasoning skills of toddlers.
hymie0 on
To paraphrase Tom Lehrer, we never would have reached the moon without true natural Americans like Wernher von Braun.
mutantmanifesto on
I just don’t understand how any fellow ashkenazi Americans are MAGA. It baffles the mind.
NoYoureAPancake on
I will never cease to be amazed at these morons who seek to destroy a global system that we built, and that benefits us in almost every way.
Am_Deer on
The sad thing is that once this failed experiment is over we will all be worse than we’ve ever been and he will melt into obscurity mostly forgotten yet richer.
Hate and greed off the backs of “Christian’s.” If they were true believers our country would never be like this. Instead they use religion as their platform to grift and hate. Oh the irony.
RaymondLuxYacht on
Miller is a blight on this Nation.
xocutiepiexoxo on
Miller’s late night “America lost its mojo because of immigrants” rant is peak someone thinks history started in 1950. The guy literally comes from immigrant stock, yet wants to erase everyone else’s contributions, it reads like a parody of insecurity, not policy.
TopSpread9901 on
These people are too cowardly to face reality. They’re too weak to hold their eyes open.
So they retreat into the biggest cowardly fantasy there is. That they’re special because of their birth circumstances.
Loathsome worms.
TuesdaysLunch on
You know Millers hate stems from being turned down by some cute immigrant girl back in the day who was grossed out by his character right?
Nervous_Otter69 on
No it didn’t. He can get fact checked, nose rubbed in, dunked on, etc etc, all day long – until he’s fired/jailed/faces any sort of accountability – no republican in this administration experiences “backfire”
fakelaughfred on
>“Someone should write an alternate historical novel where Americans are the first to master the automobile, the first in flight, the first to harness the atom, the first to land on the moon—but just keep going and never open our borders to the entire third world for sixty years.”
That fantasy scenario would’ve closed the door that let your ancestors in, you fucking ghoul.
AdHocHillbilly on
Imagine being this angry and this hateful so often. These people seem so joyless to the point it becomes their very identity. Awful way to live.
commonsense_good on
Profoundly racist and extremely entitled. WTF?
Thirty_Helens_Agree on
I read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich which contains a lot of excerpts from Mein Kampf. Miller’s post sounds like Mein Kampf.
LoudColin on
You can tell from how he’s such a huge pussy about literally everything that he IS actually terrified of diversity. What a fucking Nazi twat.
GeistMD on
Rich kids really need to be forced to watch Sesame Street and go to public school. All this private school, no Golden Rule learning rich people shit ain’t working.
Artistic_Record_3845 on
Stephen Miller is an insecure little bitch.
DonktorDonkenstein on
I see a lot of people mocking Miller here, which is understandable and well deserved. But I think it’s very dangerous to dismiss the members of this regime as merely stupid. Miller in particular has been lurking around the government now for many years, pushing his white nationalist agenda and is currently wielding incredible power. So far he’s achieved a lot of his twisted agenda through his almost-certain control of ICE and DHS… despite the fact that his official position is *Deputy* Chief of Staff. Some have gone so far as to call him our “shadow president”. While I don’t know about that, he is definitely wielding outsized power and control over our entire law enforcement apparatus by giving the ICE and DHS the ability to legally kidnap, incarcerate and deport people with no due process.
He may be legitimately stupid when it comes to understanding society, but so far he’s come out on top in the ways that actually matter. We absolutely have to stop this.
DCBronzeAge on
The thing about fascist regimes is that the people like Stephen Miller are the ones who suffer the real consequences. The leaders usually don’t make it out and the ones who actually have the real skills to contribute (ala Werner Von Braun and the others from Operation Paperclip) get rehabilitated.
If history proves to rhyme, Miller’s life once Trump is gone will not be especially fun for him. Even if he manages to skirt legal consequences, he’s going to have to answer for what he’s done for the rest of his life. And that helps me sleep at night.
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Miller’s profoundly racist and ethnophobic worldview needs to be challenged at every turn, but as long as it is shared by the President, nothing much can change at the upper echelons of the US government.
From the article:
” Stephen Miller’s rant about a “self-loathing” America was swamped by online backlash as critics lined up to credit immigrants with America’s biggest leaps.
Miller, 40, Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy and hardliner immigration czar, fired off a late-night X post on Sunday, complaining that the modern world does not match “what our ancestors imagined” because America and the West supposedly spent generations in “a vast, consuming project of self-loathing, self-denigration and the redistribution of our national resources.”
It followed an earlier post from the previous evening, where Miller wrote: “Someone should write an alternate historical novel where Americans are the first to master the automobile, the first in flight, the first to harness the atom, the first to land on the moon—but just keep going and never open our borders to the entire third world for sixty years.”
Suggesting that technological advances had faded away due to immigration, he’d added: “For those who don’t know, the U.S. had negative migration for the half century between the first nonstop transatlantic flight and the moon landing.”
But Miller’s reading of history was derided for being myopic, misleading, and hypocritical, since Miller himself is a descendant of Jewish immigrants who fled persecution abroad and built a successful life for themselves.
Jon Favreau, Barack Obama’s former speechwriter and a host of Pod Save America, led the pile-on. “You’re only here because America decided to welcome your family when they were refugees fleeing poverty and violence,” he replied, before skewering Miller as a rich kid from California who rose through elite schools into an administration run by “insanely rich elites” who’ve “made themselves even richer” through “open corruption.”
“Maybe, since you’re in charge of it, you can take some responsibility for the modern world not looking like what your ethnic minority refugee ancestors might have imagined,” he wrote.
Journalist Mehdi Hasan, who runs media outlet Zeteo, urged Miller to “learn to use Google,” which he noted would have easily shown that an Egyptian-American Muslim scientist named Dr. Farouk El-Baz helped pick Apollo landing sites and train astronauts for NASA’s moon-landing.
Others also rebutted Miller on his technological timeline. Several X users rattled off a list of immigrant innovators behind iconic breakthroughs, from German engineer Karl Benz’s car to Italian-born physicist Enrico Fermi’s work on the atom, reminding Miller that Neil Armstrong was also the descendant of European immigrants.
They noted that without immigrant scientists and engineers, America would not have reached the moon, developed color TV, or built much of its modern economy.
Some users argued that postwar foreign aid was not “self-denigration,” but an assertion of strength aimed at helping weaker nations adapt American values. Another pointed out that Miller’s “redistribution of resources to the undeveloped world” argument collapses under “basic arithmetic,” noting that foreign aid is roughly 1 percent of federal spending.
Miller’s posts also revived a long-running charge of hypocrisy against him.
As Trump’s immigration policy lead, and the driving force behind the administration’s 3,000 daily deportations target, Miller has pushed for mass arrests, drastic cuts to refugee admissions, and the rollback of protections for more than a million people—policies critics say would have barred families like his from ever arriving.
Miller’s own cousin, Alisa Kasmer, condemned his anti-immigration crusade earlier this month, saying their Jewish great-grandparents had fled persecution and successfully rebuilt their lives in the United States. Kasmer accused him of “trying to take away the exact thing that his own family benefited from.”
The Daily Beast has contacted Miller for comment. “
Evil Caillou is a walking hypocritical hate-machine. There’s no new news here.
[we shouldn’t have to do this](https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-millers-late-night-self-loathing-rage-post-immediately-backfires/)like as a community…capitalism really is fucking stupid.
Fuck him and his white-supremacist worldview.
Every time I see Stephen Miller he reminds me of a circumcised male genitalia. I just can’t unsee it 🤭
Or maybe we should have started another world war and bombed the industrial base of every other nation so we could stay ahead while working half as hard as everyone else had to. What an absolute fucked up version of history this is.
Pee Wee Himmler is a fragile snowflake who is extremely scared of brown people.
Stephen Miller deserves to rot in a lightless cell and I hope it happens one day.
I didn’t think Nazis would reincarnate as themselves.
“FROM the nature of despotic power it follows, that the single person, invested with this power, commits the execution of it also to a single person. A man, whom his senses continually inform that he himself is every thing, and his subjects nothing, is naturally lazy, voluptuous, and ignorant. In consequence of this, he neglects the management of public affairs. But, were he to commit the administration to many, there would be continual disputes among them; each would form intrigues to be his first slave, and he would be obliged to take the reins into his own hands. It is, therefore, more natural for him to resign it to a vizir, and to invest him with the same power as himself. The creation of a vizir is a fundamental law of this government.” **<- You are Here**
– Baron de Montesquieu The Spirit of Laws – 1777
He’s only 40? He looks soooo much older. 🤣
Holy shit – that man’s only 40? No wonder he hates himself.
Him mentioning the moon landing his hilarious given it was made possible by German Immigrant scientists, also our work on the atom/atom bomb too (Einstein helped on the project and was an immigrant, and German and Polish scientists had done a lot of foundational physics in the early 20th). This man has no grasp of history and a micro penis, which is why he is so fucking angry.
How come these fascists don’t realize that if you are white in America you are descendant from immigrants?
History won’t be kind to this man.
Today is the day I learned that miller is barely older than me. They really do just age like milk, remember kids hate and racism will age you faster than time.
There is an old video of him when he was in high school. His friends are at the back of the school bus, not a woman in sight, making racist jokes. Little has changed; this whole administration is full of racist suburban kids who feel entitled to the world.
So many people fundamentally misunderstand the achievements of man through the lens of exceptionalism and individualism, which leads them down this whole stupid path to a quest for purity or an ubermensch, but even a basic understanding of history proves it’s literally the opposite.
Progress is never about the individual, societies advance fastest in places where there is the most communication and cultural exchange with the largest number of people. This is why port cities and trade centers became advanced civilizations and rural villages and hermit kingdoms would seem centuries behind them. Individual people, even very smart ones, are not as smart as large numbers of people collaborating on a problem.
America succeeded by redefining a lot of the norms around nationalism and attracting talented and ambitious people from around the globe. This is literally the entire reason for American supremacy throughout the 20th century, and it’s painfully apparent that if we try to undo all that we’ll have a dumber and less prosperous country.
Miller and his ilk are really fucking hilarious. They draw their entire worldview from a history that they just fucking made up. They really have the reasoning skills of toddlers.
To paraphrase Tom Lehrer, we never would have reached the moon without true natural Americans like Wernher von Braun.
I just don’t understand how any fellow ashkenazi Americans are MAGA. It baffles the mind.
I will never cease to be amazed at these morons who seek to destroy a global system that we built, and that benefits us in almost every way.
The sad thing is that once this failed experiment is over we will all be worse than we’ve ever been and he will melt into obscurity mostly forgotten yet richer.
Hate and greed off the backs of “Christian’s.” If they were true believers our country would never be like this. Instead they use religion as their platform to grift and hate. Oh the irony.
Miller is a blight on this Nation.
Miller’s late night “America lost its mojo because of immigrants” rant is peak someone thinks history started in 1950. The guy literally comes from immigrant stock, yet wants to erase everyone else’s contributions, it reads like a parody of insecurity, not policy.
These people are too cowardly to face reality. They’re too weak to hold their eyes open.
So they retreat into the biggest cowardly fantasy there is. That they’re special because of their birth circumstances.
Loathsome worms.
You know Millers hate stems from being turned down by some cute immigrant girl back in the day who was grossed out by his character right?
No it didn’t. He can get fact checked, nose rubbed in, dunked on, etc etc, all day long – until he’s fired/jailed/faces any sort of accountability – no republican in this administration experiences “backfire”
>“Someone should write an alternate historical novel where Americans are the first to master the automobile, the first in flight, the first to harness the atom, the first to land on the moon—but just keep going and never open our borders to the entire third world for sixty years.”
That fantasy scenario would’ve closed the door that let your ancestors in, you fucking ghoul.
Imagine being this angry and this hateful so often. These people seem so joyless to the point it becomes their very identity. Awful way to live.
Profoundly racist and extremely entitled. WTF?
I read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich which contains a lot of excerpts from Mein Kampf. Miller’s post sounds like Mein Kampf.
You can tell from how he’s such a huge pussy about literally everything that he IS actually terrified of diversity. What a fucking Nazi twat.
Rich kids really need to be forced to watch Sesame Street and go to public school. All this private school, no Golden Rule learning rich people shit ain’t working.
Stephen Miller is an insecure little bitch.
I see a lot of people mocking Miller here, which is understandable and well deserved. But I think it’s very dangerous to dismiss the members of this regime as merely stupid. Miller in particular has been lurking around the government now for many years, pushing his white nationalist agenda and is currently wielding incredible power. So far he’s achieved a lot of his twisted agenda through his almost-certain control of ICE and DHS… despite the fact that his official position is *Deputy* Chief of Staff. Some have gone so far as to call him our “shadow president”. While I don’t know about that, he is definitely wielding outsized power and control over our entire law enforcement apparatus by giving the ICE and DHS the ability to legally kidnap, incarcerate and deport people with no due process.
He may be legitimately stupid when it comes to understanding society, but so far he’s come out on top in the ways that actually matter. We absolutely have to stop this.
The thing about fascist regimes is that the people like Stephen Miller are the ones who suffer the real consequences. The leaders usually don’t make it out and the ones who actually have the real skills to contribute (ala Werner Von Braun and the others from Operation Paperclip) get rehabilitated.
If history proves to rhyme, Miller’s life once Trump is gone will not be especially fun for him. Even if he manages to skirt legal consequences, he’s going to have to answer for what he’s done for the rest of his life. And that helps me sleep at night.
This man is a terrible human being.