Stephen Miller: Camp of the Saints Meets Weimar Solutions

Inside the fascist fan-fiction running America’s regime.

Miller’s Crossing

The rush to execute a dictatorial takeover of the United States continues to accelerate into absurdist theater—and real-world violence. Trump adviser Stephen Miller is frantically trying to manufacture a scapegoat that can be used to deploy military resources into American cities at scale.

In the last two days, Trump-appointed federal judge Karin Immergut has blocked Trump from deploying National Guard three times.

1. Blocked 10/4/25: Oregon National Guard → Portland (federalization/deployment)

2. Blocked 10/5/25: California National Guard → Oregon/Portland

3. Blocked 10/5/25: Texas National Guard → Oregon/Portland

JB Pritzker, Governor of Illinois, has also sued the federal government to prevent them from “invading” Chicago, although that has not yet been ruled on.

Monday morning, Stephen Miller targeted Judge Immergut on social media for her rulings. Just the day before, another federal judge, Diane Goodstein, who had been targeted for her ruling by SCOTUS and the Trump regime, had her house burn down. Judge Goodstein’s family barely escaped with serious injuries.

Fire, Daily Mail, post by AAG Harmeet Dhillon targeting Judge Goodstein 9/5/25

Just a few hours before the fire, Stephen Miller referred to judges as “radicals” who “protect leftwing terrorists.”

Miller did not lower the temperature of his rhetoric in the face of another apparent act of violence against a judge. Monday afternoon, Miller made a deranged appearance in which he presented an alternate world, which—as Judge Immergut said in her ruling—is “untethered to the facts.”

“When ICE officers have to street battle against Antifa… what is the purpose? It is to prevent immigration and customs enforcement from carrying out the mission the American people elected them to do. Their objective is to make it impossible for ICE to carry out ICE enforcement.” —Stephen Miller, 10/6/25

Stephen Miller is in a hurry to execute his fascist vision—and he has a large playbook borrowed from both history and fiction to achieve it.

State of Exception: Weimar Solutions

“Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.” -Carl Schmitt

After WWI, when Germany was creating its new democratic constitution, there was an ideological battle between liberals and more traditional monarchists about how much power the presidency should have—especially over the military. This paralleled the war of words between the Federalists and the anti-Federalists after the American Revolution over how much power the president should have to deploy the militia—now known as the National Guard.

Militia Timebomb: How the Fear of State Violence Guaranteed It

The Weimar Constitution shared many features with the American Constitution, but left a large loophole, Article 48, which allowed the German president to invoke emergency powers. It also allowed suspension of civil liberties guaranteed in the Weimar Constitution.

If public security and order are seriously disturbed or endangered, the Reich President may take the necessary measures to restore public order and security; he may intervene with the assistance of the armed forces if necessary. For this purpose he may temporarily suspend … fundamental rights.”

— Weimar Constitution, Article 48

In Political Theology (1922), German jurist Carl Schmitt diagnosed what he saw as a fatal flaw in liberal democracy—its dependence on procedures and laws which cease to function in times of crisis. His solution was the “state of exception”: the idea that a strong sovereign must have the power to suspend normal law in an emergency in order to preserve the state. Schmitt went on to collaborate with the Nazi government.

Carl Schmitt, 1922 book

Schmitt regarded the state of exception not merely as a legal provision, but as the foundation of sovereignty itself—the moment when the sovereign reveals his supremacy by deciding that law no longer applies. Schmitt’s doctrine concluded that a state of exception should justify:

1. Special executive powers

2. Suspension of the Rule of Law

3. Derogation of legal and constitutional rights

Starting in 1923, President Friedrich Ebert, a moderate Social Democrat, used Article 48 emergency powers sixty-three times to deal with economic problems facing Germany. Nevertheless, he returned his dictatorial powers each time.

But by early 1932, the use of Article 48 decrees had hollowed out the Weimar republic; each time the Reichstag voted down a decree, Hindenburg simply reissued it. This effectively replaced the constitution with a dictatorship by fiat, leaving only the shell of democracy remaining.

This government by state of exception gained official recognition when Hitler used Article 48 to declare the Reichstag Fire Decree, leading to the suspension of constitutional rights and the arrest, imprisonment in concentration camps, and murder of his political opposition.

Among the first groups to be targeted under the Reichstag Fire Decree was the Communist Party’s anti-fascist activist campaign Antifaschistische Aktion—which was nicknamed “Antifa.”

Camp of the Saints Problems

Jean Raspail was a travel writer and novelist before he wrote the book that defined him and helped fuel the white supremacist radical right—the apocalyptic, racist novel Camp of the Saints (1973).

Jean Raspail, Camp of the Saints

The book describes a future France—used as a proxy for the U.S. and western culture more generally—contending with an armada of a million refugees landing on its shores. The resulting migration crisis is depicted as a subhuman invasion of disease and crime which first destroys France and then all of Europe.

As an example of its tone, as the refugees come ashore and chaos ensues, local leaders are berated for their “insipid, insufferable pity!” and their lack of pride in their “skin, and all that it stands for.”

“You and your pity!” the Consul shouted. “Your damned, obnoxious, detestable pity! Call it what you please: world brotherhood, charity, conscience … all I see is contempt for yourselves and all you stand for… Can’t you see where it’s leading? … You’ve got to be out of your minds just to sit back and let it all happen, little by little. All because of your pity. Your insipid, insufferable pity!…

There’s not one of you proud of his skin, and all that it stands for …”

Spoiler alert: In the end, all of Western civilization “dies” under the weight of its own empathy.

Camp of the Saints has been cited as an inspiration by a number of fascist politicians and propagandists including Marine Le Pen, Viktor Orbán, the Tanton Network, and Trump propagandist Steve Bannon—who regularly uses the apocalyptic, racist imagery of the novel to generate anger, fear, and disgust.

Bannon’s sudden interest in the novel started in October 2015.

In 2019, the SPLC published a story with leaked emails from Steve Bannon’s propaganda operation Breitbart. One sequence showed that on September 6th, 2015 Stephen Miller was the one who had suggested Camp of the Saints to a Breitbart editor.

[Breitbart editor] Katie McHugh, Sept. 6, 2015, 3:34 p.m. ET: “[Breitbart editor] Neil [Munro], Julia [Hahn] and I are going to do a series of stories on [nonwhite SAT scores] to break it down. Neil says it’s easier for people to digest that way and change their minds.”

Miller, Sept. 6, 2015, 3:41 p.m. ET: “On the education angle? Makes sense. Also, you see the Pope saying west must, in effect, get rid of borders. Someone should point out the parallels to Camp of the Saints.”

Hahn wrote a Breitbart story on Sept. 24, 2015, headlined “‘Camp of the Saints’ Seen Mirrored in Pope’s Message.” The article ran 18 days after Miller’s email on the same theme.

Mirrored, quite a word choice.

Alternate America

What we’re seeing in America is a form of Orwellian alternate reality theater; it’s “2+2=5” but expanded to a universe of cartoon-like heroes (Trump, Kristi Noem, ICE) and murderous villains (“Antifa,” an “invasion” of immigrants, Democrats). Together the heroes and villains create the characters needed to play out a pre-scripted fictional drama which can be simplified as Camp of the Saints Meets Weimar Solutions.

The “state of exception” doctrine that Carl Schmitt advocated for, which helped Hitler seize control of Weimar, is being manufactured by the Trump regime by mirroring the fictional world of Jean Raspail’s novel through Miller’s rhetoric and propaganda.

In 2007, Peter Thiel wrote a libertarian manifesto called The Straussian Moment in which he synthesized Carl Schmitt’s political theology with René Girard—Thiel’s philosophical muse and the creator of mimetic theory:

“If one agrees with Schmitt’s starting assumptions, then the West must lose the war or lose its identity. One way or the other, the persistence of the political spells the doom of the modern West; but for the sake of completeness, we must consider also the inverse possibility… that, so long as the political exists, the world will remain divided, there is no guarantee that the political itself will survive.”

Last year, Peter Thiel, at a conference literally devoted to Carl Schmitt, said:

“There are certain parallels in the US in the 2020s to Germany in the 1920s. Liberalism is exhausted. One suspects that democracy, whatever that means, is exhausted. And we have to start asking some questions very outside the Overton Window.”

Scared, bro?

Stephen Miller’s desire to manufacture a false flag crisis on an absurd schedule reflects a sense among some in the Trump circle that this project is not going fast enough. That, as I wrote, is why they are in such a hurry.

The Big Hurry: Why So Anxious For Dictatorship Right Now?

Others, including some who have cheerled the destruction of American democracy for decades, are already seeing the project as a failure. Curtis Yarvin, who promotes Carl Schmitt on a regular basis, and provided the fascist tech-bro ideology “The Dark Enlightenment,” seems, well, nervous.

“The second Trump revolution, like the first, is failing. It is failing because it deserves to fail. It is failing because it spends all its time patting itself on the back. It is failing because its true mission, which neither it nor (still less) its supporters understand, is still as far beyond its reach as algebra is beyond a cat. Because the vengeance meted out after its failure will dwarf the vengeance after 2020—because the successes of the second revolution are so much greater than the first-everyone involved with this revolution needs a plan B for 2029. And it is not even clear that it can wait until 2029: losing the Congress will instantly put the administration on the defensive.”

This is the problem we all have to face. People like Yarvin may or may not have criminal problems to worry about if we survive this as a democracy, but this entire administration does have those problems—especially people like Stephen Miller. At this point the entire administration is a crime scene, a constant output of false, coercive propaganda designed to incite violence—or to pretend there is violence when there isn’t any—all in an unconstitutional conspiracy to abuse power.

They know it. We know it. And they know we know it. Nevertheless, the show must always go on.

How this ultimately plays out is impossible to predict, but I continue to have my doubts that a plan so transparent, absurd, and monumentally evil can possibly work.

“The crowd discovers that it has the power to decide who is guilty and who is innocent; that is the beginning of the end.” — René Girard

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