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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStephen Miller believes in controversy as political strategy, even if it means jailing children
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/19/17474720/trump-immigration-border-stephen-millerTo understand what the Trump administration is thinking about separating families and locking kids up at the border, you have to understand Stephen Millers foundational political belief: Its better to stir controversy, at any price, than it is to engage constructively.
The architect of Donald Trumps immigration policy and the White Houses resident troll, the 32-year-old White House senior policy adviser believes its good to trigger the libs, so to speak, with the purpose of enlightenment. To Miller, working constructively across the aisle isnt as useful as melting snowflakes.
To Miller, theres no reason to moderate a view or a policy, especially not when it comes to his deepest passion: immigration restrictionism. Its a subject he was passionate about even in high school and one over which he bonded with his former boss, then-Sen. Jeff Sessions, a longtime immigration hardliner. Its no wonder, then, that Miller designed the initial version of Trumps travel ban, barring people from several majority-Muslim countries from entering the US for 90 days, and refugees for 120 days.
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Cruelty as a feature, not a bug
The Trump administration hasnt really tried to win the public conversation on family separations. As conservative writer Ross Douthat pointed out on Twitter, the policy didnt begin with a public discussion or explanation for separating young children from their parents, or by making the case to Congress for more family detention facilities. It started by taking kids from their parents first and attempting to assuage demands for legislation later.
Gothmog
(145,073 posts)librechik
(30,674 posts)sold into slavery in Sudan. Not that he's worth a shit as a slave.
Botany
(70,483 posts)If ever a man needed his butt kicked it is that person. Selling hate of people of color
and "triggering the libs" as political objectives is the end product of what got started
w/Joe McCarthy and then lived on w/Rush and Fox News, Karl Rove, Roger Stone, and
Donald Trump.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)From abusing children by getting his legislation to hurt them more with. If the republicans or any Democrats do this , they are encouraging him to them again take hostages to get whatever he wants next, and to be as brutal and criminal in doing so. These that vote for, or introduced anything now need to be ousted from being in OUR government. Anyone bowing down to him now need to be voted out of office allowing children being permanently damaged and abused for political gain . He'll do it again, and again to us if not stopped.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)is still pissed that all the hot Hispanic guys from his high school got all "his" white women.
Parents must be proud.