Miller, who began his role in the Trump administration in 2017, is widely considered the president’s most ideologically extreme and bureaucratically effective adviser. In December 2019, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch published a cache of more than 900 emails 2 Miller wrote to his contacts at Breitbart News before the 2016 presidential election. For a starting point, one must look no further than President Donald Trump’s senior adviser for policy and chief speechwriter, Stephen Miller. These notions, once the preserve of fringe white nationalist groups, have increasingly infiltrated the mainstream of American political and cultural discussion, with poisonous results. But there is another, more dangerous, side to this debate-one that seeks to rehabilitate toxic political notions of racial superiority, stokes fear of immigrants and minorities to inflame grievances for political ends, and attempts to build a notion of an embattled white majority which has to defend its power by any means necessary. The recent protests and public reaction to George Floyd’s murder are a testament to many individuals’ deep commitment to renewing the founding ideals of the republic. The United States is living through a moment of profound and positive change in attitudes toward race, with a large majority of citizens 1 coming to grips with the deeply embedded historical legacy of racist structures and ideas.
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