Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda

A book that documents the life and times of the undocumented when a hatemonger targets them. It examines the rise of a documented minority male, Stephen Miller, who separates himself from his past and embraces a darkness where anger and aggression emanates from the deeply shadowed corners of his privileged and distasteful view of humanity.The 280+ paged book examines Stephen Miller, a hatemonger who underwrites division and insures conflict and pens presidential speeches of meanness and violence.The focus on Miller, a man-boy without a grounding in either traditional humility or humanity, shows his intelligence and deep desire for dominance. In his pursuit of recklessly controlling his environment, he chooses to push down on those who, given their place today, are at their weakest points in their lives. Does that make him an opportunist?The well-researched and biographical book documents Miller’s rise in his Santa Monica, California’s moat, checking its waters, like an infant’s toes checking the tide’s temperature before entering a formidable ocean of behind-the-scene politics. For him it was a comfortable beach city where he could practice his privileges and develop his scathing animus of the foreign.In his youthful skin at Santa Monica High School, he badmouthed his student body and railed his anger and polished his hate at the temperate minority around his community in Los Angeles.As snakes shed their skins, so does Stephen Miller, graduating from high school and his privileged environment, where he finds a way to assimilate all his family’s dissonance and rivalry and his passion for hatemongering. He attends a university in the South and hones his invective. Attack the weaker for a living, his toes always checking the water, stirring it a bit, muddying it to his preferred shade of darkness.I believe the book, in all its documented sources, being written by a female who understands more than an average male like me, reveals Stephen’s hatred directed at humble people trying to survive in a common world with an unwarranted and privileged hatemonger pulling on some dark strings of some type of sadistic intelligence, one that might bother many fair-minded intellectuals.Though this book mentions pogroms in Belarus, it does not examine Nazism, which is very relevant to Miller and his relatives, not to mention many others who have felt the sting of the privileged bearing down on them. I believe this may be its short coming. For it baffles an informed reader how a well-educated and privileged Jewish boy could become such a rabid hater of those disadvantaged.In the first 100 pages or so, we learn that Stephen was surrounded by money and an ambitious family who were lucky to avoid the Holocaust through early immigration to America. And they followed its channels of traditional societal advantages through the pursuit of law, proprietary, and property. But as artifices breakdown so can a family, as it did with his father’s descent into Los Angeles courtrooms to argue his cases for what seemed like possible retribution. One wonders if the book wasn’t trying to project that the apple does fall far from the tree.The examination of Miller’s life reminds me that even an intellectual weed can grow strong roots in a soil tilled by the humblest peoples of a democracy. That even strong people performing in a hardworking country of production, who garner a sense of being, can be shredded in malicious diatribes by a darkened and probably soulless mind like Stephen Miller.In this commentary on this book “Hatemonger” I can’t help think of what it means to target a group of migrants, who are at their weakest and most vulnerable time of their lives: To codify and legalize the caging of their children; knowingly bar and fracture the family unit, their parents; all the fear created; germinate tremendous angst where darkness shrouds light; call on inhumane law to thrust down an ugly “hedonistic” hate tinctured with political exploitation--who lowers humanistic standards to shake hands with brutality--there is Stephen Miller plying his hidden wares, happy and smiling in hate, like a weed flowering in his dark and shadowy intelligence where his deep shades of loathing are incognizant of its surge from his singular inner viciousness.It is a good book about a terrible-man-boy, who sees opportunity in a troubled political time in America, where his fractured intellect pulls him into what are probably the meanest and ugliest corners of destructive forces that have battered and almost buried humanity and civilization in a long history of mankind’s migrations. Interestingly, there is a mention of how he hung movie posters from some of Martin Scorsese violent gangster films. Like a decent religious person who hangs their idols on their walls or a thoughtful secularist his cherished and congruent art, Stephen surrounded his bedroom with his coveted images of Sam "Ace" Rothstein, a power broker of brutality. Miller, in his youth revealed his heart and went dressed to school like his hero from the film Casino, sporting a gold ring on his pinky finger while gold chains swung from his neck and his peculiar clothing marked him as a made-man.From the book we learn his personality is one of shouting down and belittling his debaters, attacking with non sequiturs and ad hominem, a very dark personality looking to do battle and inflict insult. What Stephen Miller is good at might be said is his ability to change universal human truth and goodness to irrelevance and shear meanness directed at the others who carry no political clout. His behavior might be laughable, in different times and in decent circles, were it not real and at the highest political levels.If you want to read about how a malignant boy metastasizes into a virulent man-boy and pursues power through hatemongering, then you will probably appreciate this book’s pursuit of an amoral personality in its detailed study of Stephen Miller, who symbolizes some very dark and troubling times in America. It is hoped this democratic country continues to flourish in a traditional garden maintained for over 250 years of struggles, even though a perniciously dark weed wishes to manipulate it into something barren of judicious humanity.

Great review of the previous administration and their racist policies.

This books was highly informative about the beginnings of Stephen Miller and the people who helped to create the person (maybe persona) that he is today. It brings people from his past into the folds in interesting interviews which help to form a background on this man’s life, and how he came to bring about so much pain for immigrants to the United States in the Trump administration.Overall a fascinating, and tough, read. It’s not tough because the book is bad, but because it hurts to see just how people like him can be impacted and have such large roles in our society.

In his lecture at receiving the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to the Green Revolution, Norman Borlaug included “But the frightening power of human reproduction must also be curbed; otherwise the success of the green revolution will be ephemeral only. Most people still fail to comprehend the magnitude and menace of the "Population Monster"...Since man is potentially a rational being, however, I am confident that within the next two decades he will recognize the self-destructive course he steers along the road of irresponsible population growth..." The world population has doubled since 1970 and few have recognized the "self-destructive course." Some even take comfort in the fact that the percentage growth rate has halved. In 1970, the 80 million per year growth was 2 percent per year. In 2021, 80 million per year is just 1 percent per year. With its native-born population reproducing at a level well below replacement, America is in the enviable position of being able to stabilize its population and still remain a nation of immigrants. Guerrero’s book illustrates how easily the emotional side of human nature can make us blind to that opportunity.

This could be the inspiring story of a guy who's always wanted to work in public service, make the world a better place, and worked his tail off to make it happen, all before his 40th birthday. Instead, it's the story of Stephen Miller, a white nationalist whose goal in life is to stop the immigration of people of color to the US and make everyone who doesn't share his goal miserable in the process.This books demonstrates it's not what you know but who you know, as Miller has made it a point to cultivate relationships with like-minded people since he was in high school. Unlike the average teenage boy who may have dreams of becoming a famous athlete or the next tech bazillionaire, Miller actually reaches out to white supremacists who have any type of public image and becomes their mentee. Those relationships earn him references for positions with government officials who share his goals, until he finally ends up in the Trump administration. The drive and determination would be amazing if only he had better intentions.

If you despise the subject of this infuriating book, Stephen Miller--and really, who doesn't--you'll be amazed at just how evil he actually is. (I would have rated this book at 5 stars but I couldn't bring myself to do so because, you know--it's about Stephen Miller. Sorry, Jean.)

This book although at times is not always easy to follow gives a good background on how Miller thinks. Miller is dangerous and should not have any authority of making policy in this country. Even though he is a Jewish american he has a lot in common with Trump, a lot. He has only one opinion and only his matters. According to the book he has held these beliefs since childhood. It is not clear where he developed his beliefs, this is one thing not made clear in the book.