The Trump Administration has managed to include almost the entire spectrum of positions on Israel.
@Imperius__13 As I've said many times, I have no guys. I'm a lone researcher. The network around Carlson and Vance is an increasingly interesting political phenomenon. But it's interesting to know that you consider yourself one of them. You take for granted they represent something bigger.
@Imperius__13 I just realized which post you were replying to (I just saw the reply and assumed it was to one of my Carlson-Vance posts). But I don't see how this is a reply to that post. I might as well mention how bizarre it is to see Miller as putting in work for some collective "you."
@Imperius__13 So, the "us" in your previous post doesn't really include *you*. You've shifted the position dramatically here--from the need to "sacrifice" for some specific and important agent to the need to listen respectfully to populists. I'm focused solely on what I see as Trump's project.
@Imperius__13 So, now there is again a "we" that you are part of. Any supporter of Trump must love Miller.
@Imperius__13 A group that loves its homeboy doesn't sound like a pragmatic coalition.
@Imperius__13 So, everyone working towards order should already be allied, unless some of those working toward order have other priorities--in which case, others working toward order would be mistaken in considering them allies.
@Imperius__13 I have never heard Miller say anything I haven't whole-heartedly agreed with--even those tapes of him on the bus as a student.
@Imperius__13 No, but it doesn't change my opinion of him. I don't even know what Miller thinks about anything Jewish, or about antisemitism, etc. (He did marry a Jew.) He's always seemed focused on making very specific impacts. I'm very glad Trump has given him the role he's suited for.
@Imperius__13 I don't know if I've even ever hear Miller say anything about Israel.
@Imperius__13 I doubt he sees himself as doing it "for them" and not for his country. Among the things he doesn't care about is, I imagine, whether this or that faction of self-designated American Firsters loves him.
@Imperius__13 Then we can be allied in admiration of Stephen Miller.
@Imperius__13 I know the difference between a pragmatic coalition and enthusiastic embrace.
@Imperius__13 There will also probably never be a war against and therefore in defense of Stephen Miller specifically.
@Imperius__13 But anyone can know the difference between pragmatism and fandom.