It's Miller Time

 

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In George Orwell’s novel, “1984,” O’Brien, the main antagonist, says this:

“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power... All [other oligarchies], even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods ... They pretended, perhaps they even believed, ... that just around the corner lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means. It is an end.”

In non-fiction life, Stephen Miller, newly Trump’s Chief of Staff, said this: “We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else, but we live in a world, in the real world, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”

It rhymes.

So we now apprehend the extent to which that electoral wipeout, that massive repudiation of corruption, mendacity, and cruelty beyond anything America has ever seen, will have engendered change, a bit of introspection and humility in Trump, the malignant narcissist, the emulator of and kneeler to dictators: Zero. Less than that.

The next two years will see combative renunciation of everything the overwhelmingly-chosen Democratic Congress will try to accomplish. Two years of Stephen Miller, effectively the puppeteer behind the Resolute Desk, presidenting while Trump attends to further debasing D.C., besmearing his name everywhere and lying that his grotesque, vainglorious monuments to himself are needed for national security.

Because he’s been insecure and needy for his whole life, Trump employs cruelty to convince himself of his importance, proving his superiority over the weak. He’s devoid of the ability to empathize, so the pain it causes is of no concern. He doesn’t notice it, much less care. Knowing he’ll never be their equal, he sidles up to the world’s dictators, seeking gilt by association. (Pun intended, of course.)

Stephen Miller, on the other hand, deploys cruelty purely for the pleasure of seeing people suffer; it’s his raison d'être. He’s sadistically evil. It's embodied in everything he does. Trump’s evil comes from his nature-or-nurture psychopathy; possibly treatable by years of psychotherapy, which he could pay for with bitcoin.

Before Miller presumably slapped him upside the head, Trump said he’d accept election results. Only days later, he lead-ballooned, “Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest? How could the Polls be so wrong???” It’s true. They were. They wrongly underestimated the magnitude of the no-king tide, far too big to rig.

So Trump will be Trump and Miller will be Miller. More laws and judges will be ignored and ICE will be even more cruel, like this. Come January, Congressional Democrats must be wise about what they defund and whom they impeach. Since lame-duck House Rs temporarily saved Hegseth, he should top the list. After the swearings-in, there might be enough willing R senators to expel him.

House Democrats can impeach FBI’s incompetent Patel, OMB’s democracy-undermining Vought, and DOJ’s unconstitutional Blanche, but removal by the Senate would be tougher. Meanwhile, from Trump's White House comes the threat that Democrats doing their Constitutional duty could be a crime!

Nevertheless, Blanche should be next. Even more than Bill Barr during Trump Version One, he’s made clear his allegiance is only to one American, Trump. Neither us nor the Constitution. He includes Miller, though, about whom he told Fox’s top-tier Trump-fluffer, Laura Ingraham, “I’ll tell you what, Stephen Miller has a lawyer. It’s me. It’s me and the entire Department of Justice.” Asked about Trump’s claim that if Democrats investigate him they should be jailed, he said, in effect, “Maybe.” Along with Miller, he’s Trump’s Himmler. Newly-elected, pedophile-coverer-upper House Minority Leader Jim Jordan (R-OH) will try to be; now outranked, his trademark sound and fury will amount to nothing.

Barely behind Hegseth, Blanche, turning his DOJ and its sub-agencies solely into Trump’s personal playthings, has done the most damage to America. There must be no thinking R Senator, a demographic that excludes Tommy Tuberville and Marsha Blackburn, who doesn’t recognize it. How many, seeing such corruption and lawlessness, will re-ossify their vertebrae? Until late January, it’s unknowable.

But there’s been humor. When a committee recommended Dana W. White, former DOD Deputy Press Secretary, for White House Press Secretary, Trump, using his few brain cells not employed in imagining destruction projects, assumed they meant his pal, UFC CEO, Dana White. Announcing the choice on Truthless Sociopath, he called White "a violent Fighter and Warrior" and asked that he bring several high-profile UFC fighters with him, "even though some are not from our Country. We need these people to defend us against the Lunatic Left.”

Congenitally unable to admit a mistake, he later claimed it was a joke, even after having scheduled a meeting with him.

Does what he wrote sound funny? I wish he’d done it.