The Media Defines ‘Hardliners’ on the Right, Never Left
14th November 2026
Just as it’s always ‘far-right’, but never ‘far-left’.
Stephen Miller’s appointment as White House chief of staff came with one very routine adjective: “hardliner.” To elitist media operatives, that is defined as “anyone who dramatically disagrees with us.”
Take this Nov. 7 Associated Press headline summarizing Miller’s positions: “In his words: Stephen Miller is an immigration hardliner and a bombastic critic of Democrats.”
It’s not inaccurate to call Miller a “hardliner.” The media-bias problem is obvious when considering the opposite position. You can call Trump “Hitler” and the Republicans “fascists,” but that doesn’t make you a “hardliner” or “bombastic.”
Someone who chants “Abolish ICE” is somehow not a “hardliner.” When Beto O’Rourke told Chris Hayes in 2019 he would take down the border walls in El Paso, he was not a “hardliner.”