In a set of fascistic speeches on Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House power broker Stephen Miller, and other top Trump administration officials labelled the political left as a “terrorist” threat and vowed to use all of the tools at their disposal to systematically destroy left-wing groups.
In his remarks, Miller spoke of the Trump administration’s goals under National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7) “to disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest, and prosecute these political terrorists.”
He said, without evidence, that there is an epidemic of violence among left-wing groups, and labelled leftists and left-wing organizations as “enemies of civilization” and a “cancer” that can “destroy a society” if not dismantled.
Miller went even further to say that not only left-wing groups, but also anyone who supports left-wing causes, must be subject to persecution. The issue with U.S. institutions, he said, is that they have grown too “soft” in cracking down on left-wing beliefs.
“Nothing that we do works if the threat of violence and terror goes on unchecked. Our political systems don’t work. Our judicial systems don’t work. Our legal systems don’t work. Our jury trials don’t work,” said Miller. “At the same time, we have to understand there’s a real threat that those who are not themselves terrorists but who support left-wing violence will create the conditions that allow that violence to go on.”
He even appears to acknowledge that a threat of widespread left-wing violence isn’t imminent, instead suggesting that the U.S. must work to “prevent a threat from occurring” and called on fellow Americans to work with the administration in targeting the left.
“It is the burden and the duty of good people of all walks of life to understand that you will always be accused of raising the alarm too loudly,” said Miller, invoking images of a “perfect family … that goes to church every Sunday” being destroyed by the left. “If you wait until the point where the worst outcome is so obvious that no one can deny it, you’ve already lost the battle.”
I honestly suspect Miller helped organize the tiki torch march.
Political violence is a deep subject, but in the article snippets above, Miller has redefined the word “terrorist” to mean folks peacefully petitioning government for change as the First Amendment allows. The dictionary definition of “terrorist” is someone who uses violence. Peacefully petitioning government is not “terrorism”, unless the Trump Admin is successful in redefining the term.
Terrorism is so overused by the Republicans to distract from real societal problems thqt the word has lost all practical definition. Terrorism/terrorist means whatever they want it to in the moment.
nobody elected him.
nobody likes him.
Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.
White supremacists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.
A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
Every accusation is a confession
He’s right in the sense that yes, I do want to destroy our current society where billionaires hoard the wealth and intend to make the lower classes slaves.
The elite are just ready to say it out loud against us and whip up idiots to their side before tossing them aside like useful tools.
The last four people to try and assassinate the President lived somewhere between Pete Buttigieg liberalism and 4chan Libertarian on the political spectrum.
So much of this screaming and crying about the “political left” is Republicans trying to work themselves up into a big enough lather to burn down a Synagogue with a “In This House We Believe” flag out front.
It’s the same hysteria that got whipped up over Muslims after 9/11, “Woke” during Obama, or COVID masks/vaccines. As deranged as it is misplaced.
So much of this screaming and crying about the “political left” is Republicans trying to work themselves up into a big enough lather to burn down a Synagogue with a “In This House We Believe” flag out fron.
They’re trying to whip their base into such a frenzie that they do another Krystalnacht. They want to do a genocide, and they want as much of their base to sign their names into the Book of the Beast as possible through the base’s support for genocide.
The only violent terrorists in the US are ICE agents and cops.
You think they’re not going to do it?
Year of the medium length knives.
This little asshole needs a wedgie and a swirly.
This stupid little dweeb hates everything about America. The notion that institutions have been too “soft” on…beliefs? This dickweed wants the government to prosecute people for thoughtcrimes?
I guess he doesn’t know or care what the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are about?
s/leftist/fascist/g ?
He’s not wrong… unchecked threats of violence and terrorism by the far right aren’t getting rid of leftist ideas, and neither are the schools or the justice system.
