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Celerity

(53,550 posts)
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 06:08 PM Dec 15

Inside Stephen Miller's Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State


He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable. How far will Miller’s sadistic designs go?

https://newrepublic.com/article/204191/stephen-miller-maga-terror-state-dark-plot

https://archive.ph/KXruO



Stephen Miller’s ancestors first arrived in the United States in 1903. That’s when a man named Wolf Laib Glosser disembarked at Ellis Island after leaving behind his hometown in Antopol, a small town in the part of the czarist Russian empire that is now Belarus. Wolf Laib, who was fleeing a life marked by anti-Jewish pogroms and forced conscription, quickly set about trying to raise more money to bring over relatives.

“Wolf Laib found work in New York City peddling bananas and other fruit on street corners, and began sending small sums of money back to the family,” reads an unpublished book about the family that one of Stephen Miller’s relatives shared with The New Republic. The book—which tells the story of some of Miller’s ancestors’ immigration to the United States and their subsequent thriving here—was written by Miller’s grandmother, Ruth Glosser. Now that Miller has accumulated such extraordinary power over the future of our immigration system, it’s worth turning to this remarkable document, which we’re making available online for the first time.

As the book recounts, Wolf Laib managed to bring over more family members in 1906, including a son, Sam Glosser. Over time, Wolf Laib—Miller’s great-great-grandfather—and his descendants built a successful haberdashery business in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, which evolved into a chain of supermarkets and department stores. Sam Glosser’s American-born son, Izzy, had two American children, David and Miriam Glosser—who were to become the uncle and mother of Stephen Miller.

This story, of course, tracks with that of countless others who arrived in the United States as part of the great migration, mostly from Southern and Eastern Europe, between the 1880s and the 1910s, which numbered as high as 20 million. As the book notes, they were out to “escape economic hardships and religious persecution” to build a “better life for themselves and their children.”

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underpants

(194,588 posts)
1. His wife (who gets attention for SOME reason) flipped out about that depiction of him
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 06:12 PM
Dec 15
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20868659

Marking to read this in a bit. A descent into darkness.

eppur_se_muova

(40,864 posts)
5. Reading the whole article should convince you racism & xenophobia are due to exactly one thing: irrational stupidity.
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 07:05 PM
Dec 15

People like Miller can't plead ignorance. They have the real facts staring them in the face -- in the WH, they can get any facts they need in hours or even minutes from the most powerful informational services in the world. But they willfully ignore the facts which prove their worldview to be pathological. None of the horrible things racists have predicted have managed to come to pass, but they insist that they have because their interpretation of current reality is warped by their own poisonous mindset. Most of all, they KNOW perfectly well that almost all of the horror stories they report to Trmp and the right-wing press (and their audience) are totally fabricated, because they had a hand in the fabrication ! They need lies to vilify and dehumanize their "enemies", so they manufacture them as needed, then reject the certain, interior knowledge by direct experience that they are lies.

For that "irrational" part, I mean that in the fullest sense possible -- irrational to the point of insanity. These people do not live in the real world. They are ruining the real world, trying to force-fit it to their delusions. And they obviously think they're justified in doing so, as they begin with a conclusion and tortuously extract the necessary premises to fit -- premises with just automagically coincide with everything they want to believe in the first place ! That is as ill as mentally ill can get.

Celerity

(53,550 posts)
6. perfect example: Dog-eating Haitians
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 07:12 PM
Dec 15
Most of all, they KNOW perfectly well that almost all of the horror stories they report to Trmp and the right-wing press (and their audience) are totally fabricated, because they had a hand in the fabrication ! They need lies to vilify and dehumanize their "enemies", so they manufacture them as needed, then reject the certain, interior knowledge by direct experience that they are lies.

Initech

(107,241 posts)
8. I don't want to live in a terror state. I want to live in a free democracy.
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 07:59 PM
Dec 15

Fuck Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon.

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