Only the NY Times could write a lede as pathetic as this 2017 description of Stephen Miller: “a conservative trapped in a liberal California high school”.
His graduating from Duke didn’t seem to suggest that he minded being trapped in the part of the US that erects and topples Jim Crow Civil War statuary. Like his fellow alum Richard Spencer, being an embattled alt-right victim shows a determined, reactionary ignorance of his surroundings.
Perfect Trump cult-members, wanting to stoke the fires of race war.
SoCal has no monopoly on terrible RWNJ people and they’re not in any kind of minority (see Breitbart, Bannon, Mnuchin, Weinstein).
But advocates inside the administration, most prominently Stephen Miller, Mr. Trump’s senior policy adviser, never gave up on the idea. Last month, facing a sharp uptick in illegal border crossings, Mr. Trump ordered a new effort to criminally prosecute anyone who crossed the border unlawfully — with few exceptions for parents traveling with their minor children.
And now Mr. Trump faces the consequences. With thousands of children detained in makeshift shelters, his spokesmen this past week had to deny accusations that the administration was acting like Nazis. Even evangelical supporters like Franklin Graham said its policy was “disgraceful.”
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But Mr. Miller has expressed none of the president’s misgivings. “No nation can have the policy that whole classes of people are immune from immigration law or enforcement,” he said during an interview in his West Wing office this past week. “It was a simple decision by the administration to have a zero tolerance policy for illegal entry, period. The message is that no one is exempt from immigration law.”
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