STIEBER: Their reactions are sort of to be overwhelmed. What are their reactions? I'm interested. GARCIA-NAVARRO: And you teach this text to your students. I was recognizing a language that was not normal political discourse that I was used to hearing, but a discourse that I absolutely knew.
I mean, my interest in this novel was precisely because, really, with the inaugural address, I noticed a language that I was intimately familiar with because I study it, because I've worked on far-right French nationalism and its literature and language for a long time. GARCIA-NAVARRO: That sort of language that we see mirrored in some of the comments today. STIEBER: The key themes are actually white supremacy and the end of white civilization as the West knows it - infestation, invasion, hordes of nameless, faceless migrants who come to indeed invade the West and bring about its end. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Chelsea Stieber is a scholar of French literature at the Catholic University of America, and she teaches "Camp Of The Saints." In one message, after a statement released by Pope Francis in 2015 that was sympathetic to refugees, Miller references a book of fiction, writing, quote, "someone should point out the parallels to "Camp Of The Saints.""ĬHELSEA STIEBER: This novel is a dystopian, apocalyptic French novel about a flotilla of migrants from India who overtake a southern town in France. But now Democrats are calling for his resignation after the Southern Poverty Law Center obtained leaked emails in which they say Miller encouraged far-right website Breitbart to promote white supremacist ideas. He's engineered everything from the Trump administration's family separation policy to the travel ban on people from some Muslim-majority countries. Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller is an immigration hard-liner.
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