Stephen Miller Yearns for a World of Only Stephen Millers
According to a new story in The Atlantic, Miller is also Trump's alleged puppet master.
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I thought one Stephen Miller was nightmare enough, but being forced to imagine a universe of 8.6 billion Millers is a whole new circle of hell.
In a new story in the Atlantic, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy is described as Trump’s alleged puppet master who encouraged the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, pushed Trump’s “most incendiary” impulses into reality, and went from senior adviser to someone with total, unchecked power.
Worse, Miller’s white supremacist tendencies seem to be an open and accepted joke within the Trump administration.
The reporter writes that during Trump’s debate prep in 2024, Miller was arguing with another advisor about what Trump’s immigration stance should be. “Stephen, if you had it your way, everyone would look exactly like you,” Trump interrupted. “That’s correct,” Miller replied. Great!
The Atlantic further outlined how Miller has been slowly encroaching beyond his original mandate:
In Trump’s inner circle—even with the president himself—Miller is known as a dogmatic force whose ideas are sometimes too extreme for public consumption. “I’d love to have him come up and explain his true feelings—maybe not his truest feelings,” the president joked at an Oval Office briefing in October. But in Trump’s second term, Miller finds himself at the height of his powers—the pulsing human id of a president who is already almost pure id.
While Trump’s aggressive anti-immigration policy this term already has Miller’s grimy fingerprints all over it, the article makes clear that the president is learning even harder into Miller’s horrific rhetoric. According to David Lapan, a former Marine Corps colonel and aide to former Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, Trump is going from “American First” to “Americans Only.”
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