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Stephen Miller: Cruelty for Purity

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Stephen Miller as a policy adviser to Donald Trump is credited for the Muslim ban and for the policy of separating migrant children from their parents. As a Trump speech writer he can be credited for the memorable inaugural address with the phrase "American carnage". It painted a bleak dystopian picture of America which Trump has promised to fix. Miller is closely allied with Steve Bannon and previously with Richard Spencer, two people who promote white nationalism. Above all else, Miller seems obsessively focused on protecting America from invasions of non-white immigrants. Stephen Miller's uncle, David Glosser, recently wrote: "I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, an educated man who is well aware of our heritage [Jewish], has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family's life in this country." What can spur a man of Stephen Miller's background to adopt such cruel tactics aga...