Thread by @elivalley

Stephen Miller Catches Coronavirus

I put this aside during the Amy Coney Barrett hearings but wanted to finish it now.
(Thread/Sermon—>)

Because history is already being rewritten, and crimes against humanity are being excused and normalized even as Trump attempts a coup, it’s good to remember what we are hopefully beginning to emerge from. (2/)

Regardless of where one stands on the questions of “Is he a fascist if he didn’t abolish Congress?” and “Are they Nazis if they simply incited multiple terrorist atrocities and didn’t construct death camps?” the President’s chief immigration advisor was outed as a Nazi who— (3/)

—along with an extensive staff of white supremacists embedded throughout this Administration—used far-right ethnic cleansing ideology to form United States border policy for the past four years:
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019…
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The above expose came out long after Stephen Miller’s own family and childhood rabbi had condemned him for what he had become.
politico.com/magazine/story…
washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/…
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More recently, Miller borrowed from Nazi demagoguery to portray non-white immigrants as diseased and, yes, as COVID-19 carriers to bar them from entry into America:
nytimes.com/2020/05/03/us/…
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The final panel of my comic is a callback to the first panel of the classic story “MASTER RACE,” drawn by the legendary Bernie Krigstein in 1954 (published in 1955).
The full comic can be seen here:
from-dusk-till-drawn.com/2016/05/02/mas…
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It’s a classic of groundbreaking sequential art, it reimagined what comics can do, and it was one of the first American comic stories to grapple with the Holocaust.
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It’s about a German Nazi, after the Holocaust, who happens on a former concentration camp prisoner in the NYC subway. It’s about accountability, retribution, and justice.
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Along with the immediate rehabilitation of Trump-era criminals, we’re witnessing a massive and concerted demand that we forget. Those who applauded the rise of authoritarianism, state violence, and the bloodthirsty demonization of entire swaths of the population...
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...have reimagined themselves overnight as a persecuted and marginalized community that demands sensitivity, nurturing and healing. They’re borrowing the vernacular of “gaslighting” to pretend accountability is violence;...
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...several leaders on the right have even compared themselves to Jews in the Holocaust because they supported the Hero of American Nazism.

https://twitter.com/elivalley/status/1322661537518145536

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Krigstein’s classic comic is a reminder that we will not emerge from this hell until there is accountability and ultimately justice. If the Biden team repeats the moral calamity of the Obama years by not pursuing and/or by pardoning crimes against humanity; ...
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if media, academia, + other institutions continue to elevate alumni of a regime that committed crimes against humanity and use the myth of “Cancel Culture” to avert accountability, reckoning, and justice, we won’t just lose our small window of a chance for course correction.
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We’ll set the grounds for a more competent fascist figurehead to take the fore within our lifetimes. It’s on us to demand a full accounting, and to make politicians too terrified of us to let crimes against humanity be pardoned and forgotten.
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Postscript: The comic is also a bookend to this from 2017:
thenib.com/stephen-miller…