A Jewish man who trades in anti-Semitic tropes. His parents must be so proud.

The self-hatred is pretty evident

2015 a republican sate auditor committed suicide because his primary opponents were beginning an anti-Semitic whisper campaign. He wasn't Jewish But his grandfather was and had told him enough about his experiences to make Tom Schweich sensitive to it.

2016 Republicans manage to nominate a former Democrat who also happens to be a reform Jew and win the governorship. Since elected, he has been Trump's protege. He's not driven by values or beliefs- only self promotion. So much so that he has enabled anti-Semitism and other bigotry himself with his enthusiastic forgiveness of bigots.

and his grandparents immigrated from Poland and Belarus. They probably didn't speak much English before coming here. He definitely hates himself and his people.

Proving that, politically speaking, the theory of evolution is incorrect.

Most parasites evolved from more complex species. They gradually lose the ability to produce for themselves what they are taking from their hosts.

Case in point: Dodder

wikipedia

Dodder has lost the ability to photosynthesize it's own food. It sucks its food out of others.

The similarity to Trump and his uber-wealthy supporters is pretty clear, don't you think?

As workers become more productive, the uber-wealthy take all the profits and then some, hording the money in ways that do not improve the lives of those who actually created the wealth.

And yes, the similarities become apparent. At least some parasites are examples of useful symbiosis.

Down with the capitalist parasites!

... various "captains of industry" are motivated to plow profits back into industry and business, increasing wages and raising living standards for all.

That's not Trump world.

devolved into the party of open racism and economic slavery.

By 1907, they were enacting eugenics laws to keep "undesirables" from procreating.

Were these undesirables mainly non-white and non-European descended?

Governor of Indiana, J. Frank Hanly.

I found this link that seemed to cover who they targeted. Seems like mostly the mentally ill and those who were incarcerated.

https://www.uvm.edu/~lkaelber/eugenics/IN/IN.html

They don't specify race, but I'm thinking that the incarcerated populations were not that different than today.

Yup, signalling those Bolsheviks.

device, in the form of the word "worldly" rather than "cosmopolitan." I've heard "worldly" in many conversations with RWers and it's never a compliment.

The frog king is the head of the Republican party.

There are republicans in the WH. Only the GOP wants people to think otherwise

Unfortunately many people are unaware of some of these dog whistles so they don't get called out.

I recently saw the term Bolshevik used and I had to do a double take. No one else even seemed to notice.

He was put there by a bigger goon.

I don't think he could pass that test or speak English well enough to pass a screening process.

He's a failure at this job, but he is befitting the role in this misadministration

From wikipedia

A kakistocracy (English pronunciation: /kækɪsˈtɑkɹəsi/) is a state or country run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. The word was coined as early as the 1600s. It was also used by English author Thomas Love Peacock in 1829.

Use it often and make it go viral.

Kekistocracy. A direct response to 'Kekistan', and also a suitably accurate definition in regards to that 'august' gathering of ne'er-do-wells.

I think he knew what he was saying all right

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It is an anti-Semitic insult rooted in the old "blood and soil" identity that plagued Europe for untold centuries, and was a backhanded way of pointing out that Jews, who were not legally allowed to own land, congregated in cities.

When people start waxing poetic and misty-eyed about the Fatherland and the Motherland, they are talking about who "really" belongs and who, by Heaven, does not. It's only a short step from that sweet sentimentality to a vodka-fueled pogrom.

I was furious when Dubya introduced "the Homeland" into the American lexicon, because while the earliest line of my family got here about 1620, we've been well-endowed by later immigrants all along the way. This is America, land of immigrants. My family is proud of that -- I used to believe my country was too.

Who handed "Homeland" to Dubya? I really don't think he has that kind of malice in him. I don't think he knows the company it keeps. The term "Homeland Security" makes my flesh crawl.

But I know who does have that kind of knowing malice: Steve Bannon and the alt-right, and now that self-hating Jew, Stephen Miller.

I've read that many who've known Miller from high school and college describe him as very intelligent and an extremely fervent proponent of white nationalism, and the type who would have studied past movements with an eye toward appropriating their tactics and language.

How, though, does a Jew, consider himself white?

I saw a documentary on the KKK while back in which some of the klanners yammering on about white superiority clearly had some non-white blood flowing through their veins. I don't understand people.

I'll ask my hazel-eyed husband who sunburns easily. He's silver haired now, but as a child he had a mop of golden curls.

His dad looked so Polish he was able to melt into the Belgian Underground for the duration of WWII, travelling on missions with false papers.

His mom had the ethnic look, but was also hazel-eyed and fair-skinned, with dark hair. But she didn't blend in.

It depends. The Diaspora has been on for 2,000 years? Jews settled everywhere. They've been in Europe a long time, and there's bound to be some drift.

I grew up in Hawai'i, and was never allowed to forget I was a haole. The composition of my ethnic background was irrelevant: I was a haole. The few Jewish kids in my school were lumped into the same category. I didn't blend in to the local population, and neither did they. When I moved to California I was given a different label, again informing me that my actual background was irrelevant: Anglo. (I really never saw people who looked like me outside my immediate family until I visited Boston in my mid-30s. We look like our Irish ancestors who came in the middle of the 19th century, apparently a persistent ethnic stamp.)

In Europe, my husband and his family were never allowed to forget they were Jewish; when they moved to New York City, I think it was simply taken for granted among such a large population. Moving to California in 1964 was a bit of a shock: he was informed that he was an Anglo, too.

People judge others by so many things. I'm still glad I grew up where I did, where casual intermarriage was the norm. It shaped my worldview forever.

I was referring to the fact that white supremacist types tend be very picky about who qualifies as "white." I remember when a racist relative of mine was claiming that his intense hatred for Obama could not mean he was racist because Obama wasn't even black.

I said, Oh really? So, he could be a KKK member if he wanted?

Well, no, but...

Right. Also, interesting that a lot of people seem to use the N word to describe a guy who's not black.

I guess I'm not really sure what the standards are, but I've always gotten the distinct impression that most white supremacists don't consider Jews white. So, for a Jew to be a White supremacist, like Miller, just seems so bizarre to me. That's what I meant.

Was the documentary you saw on the KKK recent? They have changed their recruiting recently. For instance, they are no longer anti-Catholic.

I'm Armenian and am not blessed with Kardashian dark features. I went to high school with plenty of German, Scandinavian, and Polish kids who were darker than me. I envied their tans.

Cary Grant is darker than me.

John Boehner is darker than me. Here is Boehner's high school picture. (Unlike Trump his tan is not fake. I hate it when they accuse Boehner of a fake tan!!!) And a picture of his family. He is the tan boy on the grass. My son who is 1/2 Mexican has the same coloring as Boehner.

(I can't believe I'm talking about this on DU)

it seems it you have a drop of not "pure" white blood in you, the people who think "white" is best, don't think you're white.

But then, two of my sisters from my English/Irish family married Italians, and their spouses, even in the winter, have darker skin than Boehner. Yet, I'm sure bigoted Italians certainly think of themselves as "white."

unwashed. goddess, how far we have devolved.

He looks like in was in charge of a Holocaust Center during a previous life. Seriously, put a swastika on the motherfucker...

...which they were not allowed to own in any case, being non-Christian Christ-killers and all that. So rural folks like Tevye notwithstanding, Jews were more likely to be found in cities. Or something.

Cities = untrustworthy city folk = strange ideas = well, people who did not vote for Donald Trump. The alt-right really plays in this "real America" versus "the big cities" shit.

I encountered "rootless cosmopolites" in some Russian story or novel I read decades ago. It took me ages to parse out the term and understand it.

As for Miller, he is a self-hating Jew with dead eyes.

'poem added later', I thought 'Oh, no another one who is history ignorant and making shit up.'

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Really jumped out at me on second viewing. Also calling the BBC fake news.