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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStephen Miller blasted a reporter as 'cosmopolitan.' But he lives in a $1M dollar condo..
White House senior adviser Stephen Miller famously used the adjective cosmopolitan to insult CNNs Jim Acosta during an exchange in the White House briefing room last week, implying that the journalist somehow bore an air of swampy elitism.
But wait, whats that expression about people in glass houses?
It turns out that Miller calls home a nearly $1 million condo in CityCenter, one of Washingtons poshest addresses and a complex that proudly offers residents an upscale, urbane lifestyle. With high-end international retailers such as Hermès and Gucci on the street level alongside fancy Italian, Asian and French eateries, the building is billed as the new ideal for sophisticated, modern, urban living. Also in the marketing materials is the slogan: You are where you live.
Which would make Miller well, pretty cosmopolitan, in a city that is arguably among the most cosmopolitan in the world
Miller bought the two-bedroom CityCenter condo in 2014 for $973,000, according to property records. The unit comes with a hefty condo fee of nearly $1,800 a month. At the time, he was a 28-year-old Senate staffer with a $129,000 salary not too shabby for a public servant. He plopped down a half-million dollars toward the purchase price, according to records.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2017/08/07/stephen-miller-blasted-a-reporter-as-cosmopolitan-but-he-lives-in-a-1-million-citycenter-condo/?utm_term=.912391a25505
Caliman73
(11,744 posts)It does not hue to the original meaning which is akin to a citizen of the world, comfortable with many different cultures. The alt right use has anti-Semitic tones and is an attack on globalism. Remember that the alt-right is largely racist and nationalistic in it's "America is the Best".
Miller is rich, but he is still a provincial middle class bigot just with money.
[link:https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/08/04/media-matters-cristina-l-pez-explains-how-white-house-uses-dog-whistles-appeal-alt-right/217523|
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)1. smaller gov't = conservative big gov't
2. elitist = liberal elitist
3. cosmopolitan = liberal elitist
4. freedom = the freedom to take it from someone else
5. family values = imposing smaller gov't (see no. 1) on others
6. drain the swamp = get rid of the mythical deep state, and all the Jews, commies, atheists, liberals, etc. In other words conservative hegemony
7. school prayer = christian proselyization of other people's children without the permission of their parents.
8. creationism = conservative political activism to install christianity as a state religion