Apple Pie

Oppression is as American as apple pie.

― Audre Lorde

With July 4th as the time and Mt. Rushmore the place, Donald Trump has made clear he's on the warpath and wants you to join him.

"This attack on our liberty, our magnificent liberty, must be stopped, and it will be stopped very quickly," Trump said. "We will expose this dangerous movement, protect our nation’s children, end this radical assault, and preserve our beloved American way of life."

"Demagogues tend to be narcissistic and authoritarian," says psychiatrist Saul Levine. "Their vitriol appeals to the vulnerable and darker places in psyches and hearts."

But of course Trump didn't write his bombastic speech.

Who did? Stephen Miller; the same Stephen Miller responsible for Trump's inaugural address, the speech George W. Bush could only describe as "some weird shit.”

Part of the Breitbart pack that helped elect Trump, Miller is a white nationalist from Southern California and the power behind the migrant children's camps strung along the the US-Mexico border.

For a Jew, he's awfully fond of camps. 

Working with Trump, of German descent, they make a truly odd couple.

Miller is only 35, but has been a right-wing spokesman for nearly 20 years.

A graduate of Duke, he is a proponent of eugenics, a defender of the Confederacy, an advocate for segregation, and a hater of liberalism, socialism, communism, Muslims, Latinos and Blacks.

Miller also believes that "diversity"―which he calls America's "national religion"―is a veil for the "great replacement," a plot by large multinational corporations whose aim is to wipe out Whites worldwide.

No president since Harding has written his own speeches. They've all had to find their voices in others.

The liberal FDR found his voice in Samuel Rosenman; the moderate JFK, in Ted Sorensen; the conservative Reagan, in Peggy Noonan.

The demagogue Trump has found his voice in the bigot Stephen Miller.

A match made in heaven.

Or elsewhere.