Vampires in The White House
Stephen Miller and Laura Loomer are Bleeding Democracy Dry
I loved Bela Lugosi’s Dracula, but he terrified me. As a kid, I remember watching the black-and-white movie on one of those new-fangled cable channels. I was nine. I convinced my mom to let me hang the crosses my godparents gave me from the headboard of my bed. Mom drew the line at garlic. She only used garlic powder back then, and there was no way she would allow me to sprinkle that stuff around my bed.
When I was old enough to read Bram Stoker’s masterpiece on Vampires, I learned vampires can’t come into your home unless you invite them. Once they’re inside, it’s game over. They suck the life out of you, your family, and your little dog too. Your only choice: Become one of them or beg someone to put a stake in your heart.
I’m no Bram Stoker. I’m just your average democracy-loving patriot explaining the dangers of a president enthralled by the likes of Stephen Miller and Laura Loomer. These two political vampires make Nosferatu seem like a fun uncle, and they’ve been invited into the White House. That’s where we are in American politics. Miller and Loomer may wear designer clothes and tailor-made suits, but they’re nothing but blood suckers drafting policy and tweeting conspiracies from the Oval Office.
And they’re draining the lifeblood from our republic.
Stephen Miller: The Purveyor of Fear and Loathing
Ok, I’m not gonna lie: MAGA elites could have plucked Stephen Miller from central casting. He even looks like Nosferatu, and his family has been trying to put a stake in him for decades.
Stephen Miller’s political career is a master class in turning the U.S. into a fortress of fear. You know that Muslim ban? That was Miller. The family separation policy to tear kids from their parents at the border? Miller. Refugee policies that make the U.S. look less like a beacon of hope and more like a neighbor with meth induced paranoia? Yep. Miller.
These aren’t just harsh policies — they are strategic attacks on what makes our democracy work: compassion, cooperation, and commitment to human rights. When you start stripping those away, democracy stops looking like democracy and starts looking like a nightmare.
It doesn’t help that Miller has a soft spot for autocrats. He crafts Trump administration speeches that undermine NATO and raise doubts about America’s willingness to stand with its allies. His breed of isolationism weakens our relationships abroad and makes us vulnerable at home. Miller’s entire political project at the White House is designed to give aid and support to regimes like Russia’s that thrive when the U.S. is divided, paranoid, and alone.
And here’s something those of us among the living should find chilling: even Miller’s own family condemns him. His uncle, Dr. David Glosser, wrote in Politico, “I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew…has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country.” Glosser detailed how their Jewish ancestors fled anti-Semitic pogroms in what is now Belarus and were welcomed into the United States — a refuge that Stephen Miller now seeks to deny to others.
His cousin, Patti Glosser Rudick, didn’t mince words either. When Trump’s administration enacted the family separation policy, she posted: “Stephen actually enjoys seeing people suffer. He’s evil. Pure evil.”
Miller’s ancestors were immigrants who escaped violence and persecution, yet he dedicates his career to slamming the door shut on others seeking a better, safer life. That’s not just hypocrisy. That’s betrayal.
Laura Loomer: The Conspiracy Saleswoman
Then there’s Laura Loomer, who calls herself a “journalist,” but in reality, is the Typhoid Mary of misinformation and chaos. She infects our political discourse with wild conspiracy theories — about Muslims, voter fraud, and pretty much anyone who doesn’t fall in line with her hard-right delusions.
Twitter/X banned Loomer (then welcomed her back), banned from Uber (for anti-Muslim hate), and even banned from PayPal. When that many tech companies agree you’re dangerous, I suggest she look in the mirror. Unfortunately, she would see nothing but emptiness.
Yet, this vampiric entity has the ear of the President. She is in the room where it happens, and after she presented Trump with a hit list of supposed traitors in the National Security Council, several people were fired. She called it “Loomered.” Geez, now Dracula’s wife has her own brand.
They Don’t Have to Be Russian Operatives to Be a Threat
We can get distracted by the debate on whether these folks are “officially” working for Russia. That’s not the point. You don’t have to be on Putin’s payroll to do his bidding. Just ask the U.S. intelligence community — Russia’s goal is to divide us, isolate us, and make democracy look weak and chaotic.
Stephen Miller and Laura Loomer are doing all three. On their own. With gusto.
They’ve convinced millions of Americans to be afraid of their neighbors. They’ve told us to reject immigrants, experts, journalists, and even our own allies. They’ve normalized cruelty and called it patriotism. That’s how authoritarians win: not by overthrowing democracy in one big dramatic moment, but by hollowing it out from the inside.
Like vampires, they don’t break in. They wait to be invited.
So What Do We Do?
We stop inviting them in.
We call out their lies. We support independent, fact-based media. We vote in every election, not just the flashy ones. We push platforms to deplatform hate. We show up in our communities and build bridges, not walls.
And we demand that our leaders stop giving conspiracy theorists and extremists a seat at the table.
Democracy is like a home. It needs light, protection, and the wisdom to know who not to let through the door. Because once the vampires are inside, it gets a whole lot harder to get them out.
But we still can. If we act now.
