“It’s a 100% bluff”: Cuts hamper Stephen Miller’s war on the left

As President Donald Trump and Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, gear up for a governmentwide attack on anti-fascist protesters and other political opponents, historians and those who have been on the receiving end of government-backed attacks on the left say that the administration’s efforts rely on fear and complicity.

Aaron Leonard, the author of multiple books documenting the lengths that the United States government has gone to suppress leftist political movements throughout its history, including “Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism” and “Heavy Radicals: The FBI’s Secret War on American Maoists,” explained that the federal government maintained a decades-long effort to monitor and dismantle leftist movements in the United States, ranging f