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Leaked emails reveal Trump aide Stephen Miller’s fascist politics

by Trévon Austin
World Socialist Web Site, 15 November 2019

A collection of emails published by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) show Stephen Miller, White House senior adviser in charge of immigration policy, espousing racist views and promoting white supremacist and neo-Nazi publications prior to his joining the Trump administration.

The SPLC published a summary of more than 900 emails between Miller and Katie McHugh, a former editor at Breitbart News, between March 4, 2015 and June 27, 2016. The emails show how Miller attempted to guide Breitbart’s news coverage along racist channels, sending links to websites that promote the myth of “white genocide,” i.e., the claim that the world’s white population is being systematically “replaced” by non-white populations.

The theme of the “Great Replacement” pervades the manifestos and rhetoric of fascist terrorists, such as mass murderer Brenton Tarrant, who shot and killed 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand last March. The neo-Nazis who attacked anti-fascist demonstrators, killing one, and held a torchlight parade in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017 chanted “Jews will not replace us!” Trump notoriously said the fascists included “very fine people.”

McHugh was fired by Breitbart in 2017 and subsequently broke from the far-right milieu. According to her, Breitbart officials, then including former Trump campaign chairman and White House aide Stephen Bannon, introduced her to Miller in 2015 with an understanding that he would influence the direction of the publication’s reporting.

According to the SPLC, more than 80 percent of the emails deal with race and immigration. The material in them includes references and links to neo-Nazi websites, xenophobic conspiracy theories, allusions to a racist novel in which Indian men rape white women, and US immigration policies in the early 20th century praised by Adolf Hitler in his Mein Kampf.

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