The Storm Playbook: Goebbels 1932, Miller 2025, and Why It Matters

This is a point-by-point read of Joseph Goebbels’ “The Storm is Coming” from 1932, matched to Stephen Miller’s remarks at Charlie Kirk’s memorial, with our take at the end. The goal is simple: show the mechanics, not the mystique. This is how propaganda turns grief into fuel and people into targets.

Sources for Goebbels’ text are the Calvin University German Propaganda Archive and library listings that document the 9 July 1932 speech.

Full video: Stephen Miller speaking at Charlie Kirk’s memorial, September 2025.

Broadcast via PBS News. Embedded here for documentation and analysis.

Editor’s Note: Boss Global Radio embeds this video strictly for public record and analysis.

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1) Authority and inevitability

Goebbels: “I am speaking as the representative of the greatest movement of millions ever seen on German soil.” Claim to mass inevitability. The speaker becomes the voice of history itself.

Miller echoes, “Hello, Turning Point. Hello Patriots. Hello to our fearless president, Donald J. Trump.” He salutes movement, tribe, and leader. Same hierarchy. Same claim to mass power.

What to notice: the argument is not about facts. It is about momentum and belonging.

2) Crisis drumbeat

Goebbels catalogs disgrace, collapse, humiliation, unemployment, and the vanishing middle class. The pain index is the setup for radical solutions.

Miller echoes, “Save this civilization. Save the West. Save this Republic.” The present is framed as existential loss that only the movement can fix."

What to notice: if the stakes are the end of civilization, every extreme response becomes thinkable.

3) Enemy construction

Goebbels names “red battalions” and a “lying press.” Enemies cause the chaos. Identity of the foe is simple and total.

Miller echoes, “To our enemies… you are nothing.” He does not debate opponents. He defines them as the problem.

What to notice: once the out-group is the cause of all suffering, pluralism is dead.

4) Movement as the only force

Goebbels: only a movement of millions can change Germany. Institutions are worthless.

Miller echoes, “You cannot defeat us. You cannot stop us. We will finish the job.” Legitimacy flows from the crowd and its leader, not law or process.

What to notice: this is permission to ignore rules.

5) Rebirth promise

Goebbels declares, “A new Germany has arisen.” Crisis becomes cleansing.

Miller echoes, “You have awakened the dragon.” Same rebirth energy. The future is promised through force.

What to notice: suffering is rebranded as destiny.

6) False unity over conflict

Goebbels claims to rise above class and ancestry to create a single national body.

Miller echoes, “We are the storm.” Individual identity is dissolved into a fused collective.

What to notice: the “we” is sacred. The individual is disposable.

7) The storm motif

Goebbels closes with the call, “People, rise up, and storm, break loose.” It is not weather. It is the crowd unleashed.

Miller echoes, “The warrior whispers back, I am the storm. Erica is the storm. We are the storm.” The same image, updated. The storm is the righteous purge.

What to notice: storm language makes violence feel natural and cleansing.

8) Martyr manufacturing

Goebbels elevates the fallen as eternal fuel for the cause. Horst Wessel is invoked as prophecy fulfilled.

Miller echoes, “You thought you could kill Charlie Kirk. You have made him immortal.” Death becomes immortality. Grief becomes a mission.

What to notice: mourning is not allowed. Only mobilization.

9) Leader-crowd fusion

Goebbels: “Adolf Hitler is knocking at the gates of power, and in his fist are joined the fists of millions.” The leader embodies the people.

Miller’s echo opens with a salute to Trump, then binds the crowd’s fury to a shared victory.

What to notice: disagreement with the leader becomes betrayal of the people.

10) Oath and benediction

Goebbels ends with pledges and victory salutes. Sacred closure seals the mission.

Miller echoed, “God bless Turning Point. God bless Erica. God bless the Kirk family.” Political goals wrapped in religious blessing.

What to notice: if God is on one side, compromise is sin.

11) Dehumanization as a method

Goebbels reduces opponents to corrupters and enemies of the people throughout the text. The moral sort is total.

Miller quote: “You have nothing. You are nothing. You are wickedness. You are jealous. You are envious. You are hatred. You are nothing.” This is deliberate dehumanization through repetition. It strips opponents of identity and humanity. It is psychological preparation for violence. If someone is cast as nothing, their elimination is framed as cleansing, not murder.

12) The package Put together, Goebbels builds a closed system: catastrophe, holy rebirth, storm identity, martyrs, enemy pollution, leader as destiny, and sacred oath. Miller’s speech runs the same system with new names. The method is unchanged.

Our take on Miller’s speech

What he delivered was not a eulogy. It was a mobilization speech that converts grief into rage, elevates a widow into an avatar of vengeance, and trains a crowd to see neighbors as nothing. It normalizes the fantasy that a storm of righteous people should wash the rest away. That is the road to political violence.

You do not need to agree with us on policy to see the risk. Any movement that calls its enemies nothing has already told you what comes next.

Our take as Boss Global Radio

We are an indie station. We live by words, culture, community, and receipts. We know what happens when propaganda floods the zone and artists, journalists, and small platforms are pushed to the margins. We won’t play along with dehumanization. We will not launder storm talk as just another angle.

Here is what we stand on:

1. Human dignity is not negotiable. If a speech calls people nothing, we call that out.

2. Grief is not a weapon. We refuse to turn funerals into rallies.

3. History matters. When old fascist tricks are repackaged, we name the source and show the method.

4. Community first. We will keep building spaces where music and facts matter more than mobs and myths.

What you can do with this breakdown:

• Share it as a primer on how this rhetoric works.

• Call out dehumanization the moment you hear it.

• Support indie outlets that do the slow work of context and proof.

• Keep your circle safe and informed.

This is not about left or right. It is about whether we keep a culture where disagreement stops at the line of human worth. We choose that line. Every time.

What are your thoughts?

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