During Wednesday’s White House press briefing, Stephen Miller memorably accused CNN’s Jim Acosta of having a “cosmopolitan bias.”

By Thursday, an article in Politico Magazine was readily drawing parallels between Miller and Joseph Stalin. The word “cosmopolitan,” author Jeff Greenfield wrote, is “a way of branding people or movements that are unmoored to the traditions and beliefs of a nation, and identify more with like-minded people regardless of their nationality.”