Thanks for the Miller video, Andrew. The distortion of simple facts, double-speak, undermining the free press, trashing the independence of the judiciary, racial profiling, etc. etc., no doubt about it, this is autocracy in embryo. Here’s something on Miller, from his Wiki page, which includes one of the comments from a former teacher. And the association with Spencer is interesting (though he does seem to distance himself from
Herr Heil Hitler).
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While at Duke University, Miller and the Duke Conservative Union helped co-member Richard B. Spencer, a Duke graduate student at the time, with fundraising and promotion for an immigration policy debate in March 2007 between the open-borders activist and University of Oregon professor Peter Laufer and journalist Peter Brimelow, the founder of the anti-immigration website VDARE. Spencer would later become an important figure in the alt-right movement and president of the anti-Semitic and white supremacist National Policy Institute. Reports in the media said Spencer had mentored Miller while at Duke. Miller says he has "absolutely no relationship with Mr. Spencer" and that he "completely repudiate his views, and his claims are 100 percent false." A contemporary of Spencer and Miller at Duke disputed the mentorship claim. Spencer later said the relationship had been exaggerated.
Duke University's former senior vice president John Burness told The News & Observer in February 2017 that, while at Duke, Miller "seemed to assume that if you were in disagreement with him, there was something malevolent or stupid about your thinking — incredibly intolerant." History professor KC Johnson, however, criticized Duke for "not [having] an atmosphere conducive to speaking up," and praised Miller's role at Duke: "I think it did take a lot of courage, and he has to get credit for that." . . .
Miller started working for Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions in 2009, rising to the position of communications director.] In the 113th Congress, Miller played a major role in defeating the bi-partisan Gang of Eight's proposed immigration reform bill. . .
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etc. etc. The white supremicist theme is pretty consistent, and it makes sense he’s the guy in the video charged by the Administration (and later praised by Trump himself) to say what he says.