Stephen Miller, puppeteer at our White House
June 6’s “My Turn” of John Buttrick’s, titled “Portrait Banners Are Not Needed,” is my favorite. I much appreciate Buttrick’s working into our present life-with-Trump, the George Orwell dystopian novel, “1984.” One Buttrick sentence tying in the displayed Trump faces in public spaces, I especially admire. The brute-look Trump mug is “an ever present reminder of constant surveillance and absolute power.” Right on, Buttrick, Orwell.
Everything in Buttrick’s piece showing historical knowledge I credit to behind-the-Oval-Office scene, Stephen Miller. Trump doesn’t know historical facts. Can’t access such knowledge for his abruptly-made plans. Stephen Miller can and has an ultraconservative agenda driving him. He’s 41 in August. Half Trump’s age. At Duke University, contriving Miller paid attention. Tea Partiers’ time, he protested against Obama. Read of him in Wiki to get the conservative dirt on Stephen Miller.
As of Jan. 27, YouGov polled that only 17% of respondents have a positive impression of Stephen Miller, who, really, as Deputy Chief of Staff, shares the Oval Office with DJT — or the other way around. The New Republic magazine named Stephen Miller the 2025 Scoundrel of the Year. Basic alike to Miller and Trump: unremitting mean spirit.