You list all those things like they're part of the same thing, but isn't Stephen Miller Jewish? It's easy to lump people together into an undifferentiated "enemy," but there's a tension there that needs some explanation. I don't think a Jewish guy could ever be an unironic neo-Nazi.
At this point, asking whether Miller is a card-carrying Nazi, or just pals around with them and espouses their beliefs, is a distinction without a difference. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck...
1. https://www.businessinsider.com/richard-spencer-says-he-knew...
2. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/nov/12/trump-adviser-...
3. https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/bigoted-belief...
I think you're conflating white supremacy with Naziism. They're not the same thing. All Nazis are white supremacists, but not all white supremacists are Nazis.
The specific focus on antisemitism in that first iteration was something that worked, something that struck a chord, and something that grew with wider support from Germans at large.
In any reuse of Nazi, as in central north american post Cold War Nazi 2.0's it's the ultra nationalism and "USA culture nationalism" that again comes as a core feature. There are strongly anti jewish factions, sure, but the strong binding "fear and hatred of outsiders" is well satisfied by brown people, immigrants, Latin X non english speakers, etc.
Miller draping himself in a US flag as he unironically recreates pogroms his grandparents escaped doesn't erase his actions
As noted by others, the deportations, the smash and grab storm trooper tactics, the Us v. them attitudes and camps on US soil and off all fit the patterns of behaviour set by original OG Nazi's. This time around jewish people by descent can clearly fit in and lead pan-USAism actions.
Post Y2K USofA identity isn't the same as 1930s German identity, but ultranationism is still kill the outsider.
> A Jew, for obvious reasons, isn't going to be an antisemite let alone a particularly virulent one.
There have been multiple instances of Jewish Nazis:
- The father of Field Marshal Erhard Milch (2nd-highest rank in the Luftwaffe) was Jewish. Hermann Göring arranged falsified documents declaring his mother’s husband (non-Jewish) to be his "real" father. [1]
- Helmut Wilberg was a half-Jewish Luftwaffe general who was declared an "Honorary Aryan" by Hitler himself. [2]
- Back in the 1960s, a guy named Dan Burros was the 3rd-highest-ranking member of the American Nazi Party, yet went to Hebrew school and had his bar mitzvah. When the New York Times published an article about him and his background, he shot himself that same day. [3]
- Frank Collin (born Francis Cohen) was the founder of the National Socialist Party of America and led the planning of the 1977 Nazi march in Skokie, Illinois (which had a largely Jewish community). [4]. His grandparents were murdered in the Holocaust and his dad was a survivor of Dachau.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Milch
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmuth_Wilberg
I suppose it would be confusing if the only thing you ever learned about Nazis was that they didn't like Jews.
Why would you think that?!