Top White House adviser Stephen Miller is calling on the so-called “silent majority” to push back against social bullies pushing “cancel culture” and political correctness and “refuse to be silent.”
Miller, who has been the lead adviser to President Trump on some of the administration’s most controversial issues, said the fight against those trying to bulldoze the majority into accepting their radical agenda has become the top “objective” of the president’s team.
In an interview with Larry O’Connor for his WMAL show and Examining Politics podcast for the Washington Examiner, Miller also said people should fight “radicals” who are thought-shaming those they disagree witn.
“Cancel culture is indeed a very grave threat to American freedom,” said Miller, who has been with Trump since early in the 2016 presidential campaign.
“It’s an effort at making people so afraid to speak their mind that a minority of radicals can effectively intimidate a majority of common sense Americans, and that’s often how totalitarians function. If you can scare people out of saying things they know to be true, and if you can even deprive them of the language to express themselves, not ‘illegal aliens,’ ‘undocumented Americans,’ right? Not ‘rioters and anarchists,’ ‘peaceful protesters,’ not ‘Marxists,’ no, no, no, no, they’re ‘social justice advocates,’” he said in describing the current tactics of political correctness.
“When you take away people’s language, and then you punish them severely and excoriate them for saying things that we all know to be true, it’s possible for a minority of people to effectively bully the majority into acquiescence. That must be fought against above virtually any other objective we have right now,” he said.
And, Miller urged, “It’s to have the silent majority of Americans refuse to be silent.”
Miller was addressing recent polling that shows Republicans and conservatives are afraid to speak their minds because they will be attacked. But he was also taking on Democratic leaders, such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who have blasted federal police who have been protecting buildings from attacks such as those in Portland, Oregon.
Democrats have described the 56 nights of attacks against the federal courthouse in Portland as peaceful protests while Homeland Security officials have shown videos of the protesters attacking agents with fireworks, blinding lasers, fire bombs, and urine-filled balloons.
Asked why federal agents would defend the building, Miller said, “The American people built that courthouse, and we sure as hell aren’t going to let anybody burn it to the ground.”
And he tackled Pelosi’s comment that the federal police that her chamber funds as storm troopers.
Miller called the description “unforgivable slander, it’s heinous, it’s grievous, morally reprehensible, it’s beneath the dignity of any person serving in public office, it betrays a bottomless slide into ignorance and arrogance and is a demonstration of what the Democratic Party of 2020 has become.”
As for pulling back the federal police in Portland, he added, “I can tell you this. If the House of Representatives were under attack, if the congressional offices were under attack, or the homes of members of Congress were under attack, they would, and rightly so, not disband the Capitol Police and allow those buildings to be burned to the ground.”
