In early 2021, Stephen Miller—former White House senior adviser to Donald Trump and architect of the 45th president’s hopeful second-term mass deportation agenda—announced his next venture: America First Legal (AFL).
Paraded as “the long-awaited answer to the ACLU,” AFL fights for Trumpist values in the legal system. And the group is prolific: In its three years of existence, AFL has taken on more than 100 legal actions—between lawsuits filed, complaints lodged with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and court briefs written, according to the Washington Post.
While it has notably played a major role in stopping debt relief for Black farmers, Miller’s organization has been perhaps most famous for its aggressive publicity strategy of “lawfare.”
AFL targets so-called “woke” corporate and government programs, alleging employment discrimination against white, heterosexual men. It has challenged Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in higher education and supposed “radical transgender ideology” in school districts. Typically, after filing a suit or complaint, Miller makes the rounds of the right-wing media circuit and fundraises off the attention. “Bogus suits,” securities law expert Benjamin Edwards explained in the Daily Beast, seem designed for a nonlegal goal: to issue “press releases” so AFL can “recruit more […]
The change needed to disrupt the system will probably not come internally. It may, it’s possible, but not probable. It certainly won’t come from voting Democrat.
I suspect that the jolt to the system which will foment change will come externally. Maybe the use of nuclear weapons in Europe. A large regional war in the Middle East. Or war with China. If the Neo-cons have their way it will be all three at the same time! That’s what the establishment is moving toward. It will only through military defeat, and horrid conditions at home, where the dollar loses reserve currency status that things will be miserably enough at home to call the elites to account. Of course, millions won’t understand why inflation will be going through the roof, and their buying power disappeared, and their savings evaporated. Nor will the elites explain it. No need to enlighten the masses about economic factors beyond their station. Instead, they will be given drivel. “Couldn’t have predicted it” Must have been Chinese or Russian influence”. Anything to direct attention away from themselves.