Natural Born Miller

Point: It’s hard to name the worst member of the Trump administration. Counterpoint: It’s Stephen Miller. “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.” The Atlantic (Gift Article): The Wrath of Stephen Miller.

+ NYT (Gift Article): Stephen Miller Offers a Strongman’s View of the World. “Mr. Miller, 40, grew up in wealthy Santa Monica, Calif., and attended a left-leaning high school. There, he was once booed and yanked off the stage during a campaign speech for student government in which a central plank of his platform was to investigate school janitors for inadequately picking up trash. His former classmates recalled that he seemed to enjoy the attention.” (Since we just segued from love making to Stephen Miller, I’m going to pause for a minute to give you time to hose the vomit off your computer screen.)