HEALING: "We are the storm," Stephen Miller declared!

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2025

Then, Megyn Kelly signed on: In fairness to Stephen Miller, he wasn't denouncing a group as amorphous—as far-ranging and hard to define—as "the left."

In the literal sense, he wasn't even talking about "the Democrat [sic] Party!" This is the start of what he said at Sunday's memorial service for the late Charlie Kirk:

MILLER (9/21/25): Hello, Turning Point. Hello, patriots. Hello to our fearless president, Donald J. Trump. 

And hello to millions of Americans all across this land who are gathered in sadness and sorrow to mourn Charlie Kirk, but also to dedicate ourselves to finishing his mission and achieving victory in his name.

[APPLAUSE] 

The day that Charlie died the angels wept. But those tears had been turned into fire in our hearts, and that fire burns with a righteous fury that our enemies cannot comprehend or understand. When I see Erika and her strength and her courage, I'm reminded of a famous expression:

The storm whispers to the warrior that you cannot withstand my strength. And the warrior whispers back, "I am the storm."

That "famous expression" seems to come from a novel, Wretched, by Jake Remington. We would assume that Miller's citation of "the storm" is a call to the forces of QAnon, though that assumption could always be wrong.

Already, Miller was assailing the people he described as "our enemies." As he continued, he offered this call to arms in the latest American war.

There was a certain sense of "us against them" as this angry man kept shouting and praising the ultimate greatness and of his great and good warrior tribe:

MILLER (continuing directly): Erika [Kirk] is the storm. We are the storm. And our enemies cannot comprehend our strength, our determination, our resolve, our passion. Our lineage and our legacy hails back to Athens, to Rome, to Philadelphia, to Monticello. Our ancestors built the cities. They produced the art and architecture. They built the industry.

[...]

We will prevail over the forces of wickedness and evil. They cannot imagine what they have awakened. They cannot conceive of the army that they have arisen in all of us because we stand for what is good, what is virtuous, what is noble. 

And to those trying to incite violence against us, those trying to foment hatred against us, what do you have? You have nothing. You are nothing. You are wickedness. You are jealousy. You are envy. You are hatred. You are nothing. You can build nothing. You can produce nothing. You can create nothing.

We are the ones who build. We are the ones who create. We are the ones who lift up humanity. 

You thought you could kill Charlie Kirk. You have made him immortal. You have immortalized Charlie Kirk. And now millions will carry on his legacy. And we will devote the rest of our lives to finishing the causes for which Charlie gave his last measure of devotion. You cannot defeat us. You cannot slow us. You cannot stop us. You cannot deter us.

[...]

We will defeat the forces of darkness and evil. And we will stand every day for what is true, what is beautiful, what is good. And we will achieve victory for our children, for our families, for our civilization, and for every patriot who stands with us. God bless you. God bless Turning Point. God bless Erika. God bless the Kirk family. God bless our heroes. And God bless the United States of America. Thank you.

ANNOUNCER: Please welcome to the stage, Susie Wiles.

With that, the explicitly Christian memorial service moved on.

Having seemed to evoke QAnon, Miller also seemed to evoke Abraham Lincoln when he said that Charlie Kirk "gave his last measure of devotion," presumably in the fight against those who are wickedness, those who are jealousy, those who are hatred, those who are nothing. 

That said, here's what President Lincoln said this as that first civil war was about to start:

 We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies.

That's what President Lincoln said. Last Sunday, a different spirit was driving a furious man as he denounced his American enemies and seemed to pray for a war.

That said, who was Miller denouncing this day? In the specific and literal sense, he was denouncing "those trying to incite violence against us, those trying to foment hatred against us."

In the literal sense, that's who Miller was denouncing—but who gets to decide who belongs in that group? We'll guess "the storm" get to decide—the people who, or so Miller says, are the ones "who lift up humanity."

At any rate, so it went at the memorial service in which a nation was told, by other speakers, that it should align itself with Jesus Christ, a time-honored decision a person might choose to make.

(In his first book, Stride Toward Freedom, Dr. King repeatedly described his dedication to 
"the love ethic of Jesus." The book was Dr. King's account of his role in the Montgomery bus boycott.)

As the first civil war was nearing its end, the healing didn't come easy with a person like John Wilkes Booth. Last Sunday, it seemed that there might not be an impulse toward healing with people like Stephen Miller, a top adviser to President Trump.

The healing won't come easy—in fact, there may be no healing at all! A similar tone could clearly be heard when top podcaster Megyn Kelly explained why she said what she said about the fact that Tom Homan is alleged to have accepted a possible bribe in the form of a big bag of cash.

As we noted yesterday, that allegation was widely reported over the weekend. Given a chance to deny the claim that he had accepted a big bag of cash. Homan didn't deny it.

He didn't deny that he'd taken the cash! As we noted yesterday. Kelly's initial post said this:

We DO NOT CARE!

According to Kelly, she and the rest of her furious tribe don't care if Homan took the cash. Later, in a second post, Kelly explained why that is.

Her post was reported at Mediaite. Elsewhere, the biggest orgs in Blue America politely averted their gaze.

Why doesn't Megyn Kelly care? As reported by Alex Griffing, that is what Kelly said:

KELLY (9/20/25): One of yours killed Charlie and then you laughed at our pain, protested our vigils & said Charlie was to blame and in hell. You lied about the killer’s motives & said he was MAGA when you knew he wasn’t. You put us all in danger by not admitting the truth and then not relenting on the lies you tell about us. You cried endless tears for Jimmy Kimmel but none for Charlie.

You gleefully cancelled all of us for five+ years and danced when we suffered. You censored us & ruined careers of distinguished doctors & others who dared to say the truth during Covid and George Floyd. You cost our children years of learning during lockdowns and endangered them with deadly myocarditis by burying the risk disclosures and never apologized or owned it.

Your govt tried to strong arm Fox into firing Tucker bc of his J6 coverage and you said not a peep about the first amendment.

In fact, Kelly listed quite a few other grievances. You can read her X post here, but she ended by saying this:

So no, we don’t care what you say about Tom Homan. We do not trust you. We only care about defeating you.

"We only care about defeating you!" That's what Kelly now said. Indeed, even as she had raked in tens of millions of dollars, Kelly had seen rivers. There seems to be little end to her sense of grievance—or perhaps to her sense of entitlement.

Presumably, Megyn Kelly was speaking for millions of people—for millions within "the storm." She had listed some of the grievances those in that whirlwind have felt.

In our view, some of those grievances have a perfectly reasonable basis. Others quite plainly do not.

Some of those grievances have a sound basis! Over here in Blue America, we still insist on refusing to come to terms with that fairly obvious fact.

So some of those grievances have a sound basis? Tomorrow, we'll start to flesh out that assessment. But as for warfighters like Miller and Kelly, it seems to us that the real problem lies in a dangerous place:

It lies with the inability to regulate anger—with the inability to see that everyone doesn't see the world in the infallible way they do. It involves the inability to acknowledge the fact that their "enemies" may not be "evil"—that their "enemies" might not even be wrong when they state some assessment or fact.

Megyn Kelly seems to be part of the storm—and the human impulse to align with the storm is bred rather deep in the bone. Healing can be hard to achieve when the blood which flows through our veins starts blowing up a new storm.

By the way:

The New York Times is ignoring what Miller and Kelly have said. The major elites of our own Blue America don't seem to want to come to terms with this latest quite dangerous storm.

Tomorrow: Maddow interviews Harris