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There was a clear progression here: Miller started by claiming it was fascist to moderate the speech of explicit Neo-Nazis and other white supremacists, but eventually he came to use it about Democrats generally, particularly the Black prosecutors who deigned to prosecute Trump for crimes others also get prosecuted for.
If Miller believes the word fascist inevitably leads to violent targeting, then he needs to be prosecuted himself for the violent threats that Trump’s prosecutors faced, or that immediately plagued Nina Jankowicz.
And while Miller generally stopped using the word fascist after Harris referenced John Kelly’s use of it to apply to Trump (as part of an effort to blame Democrats because a registered Republican who also considered targeting Biden shot at Trump), to this day — even in this speech — Miller uses dehumanizing language every chance he gets. He simply uses “Marxist” or “communist” or “radical” instead.
That’s just recency bias. You’ll find a lot of the brazenness and naked cruelty when you get into the historical records. It just isn’t obvious from the 10,000 ft historical view.
The Nazis aren’t some ideological outgrowth of a century of horrifying cruelty in Europe, they’re just a team of Bad Guys Who Lost. They appear and they disappear from the timeline, and we never really stop to think about why or how this movement emerged out of a generally pretty liberal German society from decades earlier. Or where all the little cockroaches went when the war was over.