"I bring this up because the Trump administration released a clearly Stephen Miller-authored National Security Strategy last night, and like my WWII veteran grandfather watching Band of Brothers, my brain flashed back to a darker, more traumatic time as I read it. A time filled with thousands of needless words. A time where kids exposed their birdbrains while smarmily lecturing you how they're more advanced than they prove themselves to be."
"Bad writing looks like Stephen Miller's writing. He makes Olivia Nuzzi's repetitive barrage of run-on sentences look clever by comparison. We live under the everyone-is-twelve tyranny, and Miller and his writing may be the figurehead for this movement. A boy wielding the most powerful toys on the planet in his own Weekend at Bernie's Beltway sequel, trying to show the world how Very Serious he is, all while his own writing proves that he has never advanced beyond that stunted high school boy ranting"
The National Security Strategy uses juvenile, overwrought language filled with needless words and adolescent boastfulness. The prose resembles clumsy Model UN and high-school rants and relies on repetitive, run-on constructions that undermine seriousness. The rhetoric elevates grievance-driven themes and one-dimensional frames. The document reflects concentrated influence by a single ideologue who wields significant policy power. That influence operates as a de facto shadow presidency while the public-facing leader performs theatrics. The style and substance together signal a fragile political system that empowers transnationally hostile impulses.
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