Stephen Miller

Republicans have launched a new wave of attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar, the Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota, this time for daring to call white nationalist White House adviser Stephen Miller a white nationalist. “Stephen Miller is a white nationalist,” Omar tweeted on Monday, correctly, in response to news that Miller continues to push Donald Trump toward ever more hateful and abusive staffing decisions. But since Miller is also Jewish, Republicans are attacking Omar with the claim that calling a Jewish white nationalist a white nationalist is somehow anti-Semitic.

Let’s be clear: Stephen Miller is a white nationalist.

White nationalist leader Richard Spencer claims him as a longtime ally. Miller also has ties with groups like the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the Center for Immigration Studies. Miller has echoed white nationalist claims about the Emma Lazarus poem on the Statue of Liberty. He’s been a racist since adolescence, even reportedly ending a friendship because he couldn’t be friends with a Latino.

Stephen Miller is a white nationalist.

Miller’s own uncle has written about how the policies Miller “so coolly espouses” would have prevented his own family from escaping pogroms in Eastern Europe by coming to the U.S. Because, yes, Miller has repeatedly pushed white nationalist policies from his position at Donald Trump’s right hand. Miller was an architect of Trump’s Muslim ban. He’s not only an architect of Trump’s vile family separation policy, he's a ghoul who “actually enjoys seeing those pictures at the border.” He’s pushed to target citizenship for legal immigrants and to strip nutrition benefits from U.S. citizen children whose parents are immigrants.

Stephen Miller is a white nationalist, and Republicans who claim that saying so is somehow anti-Semitic can absolutely, 100 percent pound sand. Ilhan Omar is speaking the truth.