Since Donald Trump’s first time period, Stephen Miller has risen into an architect and enforcer of a few of the president’s most controversial insurance policies. On Washington Week With The Atlantic, panelists joined to debate the senior aide’s rise, and the way he’s turn out to be probably the most highly effective figures within the Trump administration.
Miller “has at all times believed that there’s a function for provocation and efficiency in politics,” Atlantic workers author McKay Coppins, who has beforehand written about how Miller’s childhood and faculty expertise influenced his work, argued final evening.
Between Trump’s first and second phrases, Miller’s “ideology has been somewhat constant. It’s that he’s extra seen, extra highly effective, on this second time period,” Zolan Kanno-Youngs, a White Home correspondent at The New York Instances, continued. However whereas Miller was as soon as restricted to “being the architect in overseeing immigration coverage within the Division of Homeland Safety,” Younger mentioned, he’s now “making an attempt to vary the notion within the nation towards immigrants … and there’s extra of a tolerance for the insurance policies he’s making an attempt to implement.”
Becoming a member of the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to debate this and extra: Leigh Ann Caldwell, the chief Washington correspondent at Puck; McKay Coppins, a workers author at The Atlantic; Zolan Kanno-Youngs, a White Home correspondent at The New York Instances; and Ashley Parker, a workers author at The Atlantic.
Watch the complete episode right here.
