Across the sweep of leftist Trump hate, harbored in the corners of the Trump-phobic psyche, one man has no equal when it comes to sending TDS sufferers into paroxysms of dread. That’s Stephen Miller, second only to the former president in his capacity to alarm both Democrats and bunkered Never Trump RINOs alike. For that reason he’s a MAGA favorite.
Miller, a Trump former senior policy advisor and current president at America First Legal, recently surfaced on Fox Business and shared with Larry Kudlow a determinedly optimistic take on Trump’s third run for the Oval Office.
During the Trump administration, in grudging interview segments, the “legacy” media barely contained it’s blatant disrespect for Miller. Off the record, whispered behind the scenes in Democrat circles, and condemned in tones of outrage on comment threads, Miller was proclaimed a man with no soul, the reincarnation of Josef Goebbels. The prospect of Miller returning as surrogate for Trump 2024 isn’t good news for the scrambling Democrats. He’ll be characterized as a harbinger of the dictatorship to come, the subtext being that if Trump wins, men like Miller will be in positions of power, unleashed, their policy advisories—especially on illegal immigration, a top concern with voters—on the table. Miller’s a staunch border hawk.
It's not like the Democrats are lacking for things to worry about. Joe Biden is a failing president, floundering in cognitive decline as a phalanx of submerged Marxist operatives run his presidency into the ground. With battleground polls (which, admittedly, fluctuate) now spelling doom for administration, a scenario in which Biden steps down gains more credence. Even the cautious Bill O’Reilly avers that Biden will not be on the ticket come Election Day.
The specter of a shallow and hypocritical Gavin Newscom as stand-in, or worse, vacuous VP Kamala Harris, leaves the Democratic Party with a sinking feeling that the return of effective communicators like Stephen Miller only exacerbate.
What the detractors choose to omit from analysis is that hardline surrogates like Miller are indispensable to Trump and his campaign. Given the unprecedented Democrat political and legal warfare waged against him, Trump needs ferocious advocates. There are plenty of pundits and politicos who’ll praise Trump in glowing terms, accentuating the potential positives that’ll come should he triumph in November. But Trump is wise not to neglect the necessity of legal trench fighters, rhetorical counter-punchers, and ideological articulators like Miller.
Trump supporters confront a daunting prospect when they consider the forces arrayed against the man they hope will become America’s 47th president. They hope Miller lends his voice, and does again what he did for Trump’s first term in office. At the same time, they pray that the Democratic Party and left-wing media will help things along by continuing to do exactly what they have been doing. Because it’s not working.