Scary
By Nick Anderson
Thu, Oct 30, 2025 • 7:28 PM
Stephen Miller is the Trump administration’s Prince of Darkness, an architect of cruelty cloaked in bureaucratic calm. Now elevated to deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security advisor, Miller has become the ideological spine of Trumpism’s most terrifying instincts: weaponizing immigration policy, undermining civil rights, and turning fear into governance. His malevolent aptitude lies in his ability to translate hate into governance, crafting policies that punish the vulnerable while sounding methodical and inevitable. Every administration has its true believers, but Miller’s brand of zealotry—cold, moralizing, and surgically precise—makes him something far worse than just a partisan operative.
