Stephen Miller Must Be Stopped

 As much as Donald Trump is a seething cesspool of resentment and authoritarianism, it's becoming clearer that Stephen Miller is behind much of the admininistration's lawless assault on the constitutional order. Richardson doesn't come out and say it (because it's not her style), but the implication is that Miller was pushing for the 82nd Airborne to be dropped into Portland and it was Pete Hegseth, of all people, who pushed back on him. As Krugman catalogs, what ICE has been doing in Chicago is just rampant lawless assaults on the 4th Amendment. 

The implication is that this is not, in fact, coming from Trump. It's coming from Miller. As Trump seemingly recedes from his public schedule, likely to hide his cognitive and physical decline, Miller has basically been running the cruelty machine at DHS. If we believe Schumer's statement that Trump had no idea that there were massive cuts to ACA subsidies, the probably reason is that Trump gets all of his news from a combination of Fox and Stephen Miller. 

Trump was never a policy savant. He is barely interested in the best of times in how the government actually works. Miller also is not interested in HOW it works, but in how he can use the levers of power to make it work in his own twisted image. Trump is an autocrat, who wants praise and gold trimmed offices. Miller is a full on fascist who has basically taken over the policy decisions in the White House. He's a deeply damaged human being, who exports that damage with hate and a will to violence. Trump wants the Nobel Peace Prize, but Miller wants to slaughter Venezuelan fishermen.

Trump was an ignorant slob at the height of his abilities. He is now clearly diminished. Miller is the one running the show and running the country into possible civil war. There is no compromise with him, as he's a zealot in his hatred. I wonder if people like JD Vance are looking at Trump's declining state, Miller's performative cruelty and violence and hoping for the day when Trump dies and Vance can "save the country" from Miller. 

I don't know how else he can be stopped. I know he wants violence and will seize any opportunity to destroy the Constitution. He is as pure evil as anyone who has ever emerged to a prominent place in American public life.