To congressional Democrats, Trump’s decision to promote aide Stephen Miller to serve as his chief of staff meant two things: an elevation of the aide’s extremist views and a refusal to heed the will of voters who delivered the left a historic victory.
“Stephen Miller is the architect of Project 2025, which included the push for ‘unitary executive power’ that Trump used to enrich himself and his billionaire buddies, enable the failed efforts of Elon Musk and DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency], the stripping of healthcare from millions of people, and the mass deportation agenda that led to ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and CBP [Customs and Border Protection] killing people in the streets, separating families, locking up kids and gutting the legal immigration system,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the ranking member of the House Judiciary subcommittee on immigration, said in a statement.
The Heritage Foundation, far right christian nationalist terrorist group at this point, was behind all the USAID cuts and attacks on our democracy. They also push the idea that China is a raging lunatic on the verge of attacking Taiwan. The heritage bigots use immigration, China and religion to get inside the heads of unsuspecting citizens who give up their rights and withdraw from global trade deals and treaties. Miller is smart but also a raging lunatic with messed up personality traits on full display. Miller can go away and become irrelevant unlike the heritage foundation with roots going back to the 70’s while enjoying massive funding from around the world.
Exactly.
This isn’t to say they Miller-Trump can’t absolutely wreck us in massive ways, but Miller is much too “acute” and offensive to really make much of a “dent.”
The Heritage Foundation, on the other hand is a straight-up cancer that is actively killing us, though some of us tend to ignore it or embrace is as part of “who we are” without realizing how its end goal is to absolutely create a society that has no place for us, as ordinary people, other than as chattel for the rich and powerful.