But Trump won’t do anything about it. Could Trump be afraid of him? It’s no more fantastical to think of than anything else that is around Trump. But Donnie is the president, and it should be the other way around. We are seeing, once again, that Trump doesn’t want to admit he was wrong, so we’re stuck with rabid dog Miller. With thanks to Raw Story:
Donald Trump could make a major administration change ahead of the midterms to ease voter woes, an analyst has claimed. Stephen Miller’s hard line on immigration policy is considered unsettling for voters, according to an internal document seen by The Wall Street Journal and noted by analyst Greg Sargent. The New Republic columnist suggested the president may have been swayed by Chief of Staff Susie Wiles to soften the admin’s stance. Sargent believes Trump is set to throw Miller “under the bus” as a result.
Well, now, hooray for Susie (whom I like and respect greatly), and make it a big, bad bus. Turn him into a smear of grease. Okay, I have a disclaimer to not have him run over by an actual bus. That would be ironic, but I can’t wish someone dead, jokes aside. Well, maybe Trump, but he’s doing things to himself. It’s just not right. No matter, it’s obvious that something needs to be done, and Miller needs to shut the eff up.
Sargent wrote, “Trump wants to ‘lower the profile of his mass deportation effort,’ the Journal reveals. He wants voters to think the targets of these deportations are ‘bad guys,’ not noncriminal undocumented residents. “He wants less visibility for ICE raids in cities, fewer public confrontations with local officials, and less public talk about “mass deportations,” which, he now grasps, are hideously unpopular.
“Tellingly, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles now sees deportations as a liability for the midterms, per the report,” Sargent wrote. “That Trump is siding with her on the politics here is a sign of political panic and a rebuke to Miller, who apparently delights in flaunting the administration’s vicious sadism and overt white nationalism — and seems certain that latent majorities are quietly cheering along.
It’s about damn time, but it’s actually too late. That train has left the station. What’s done is done. Will he and the Republicans be able to recover? It’s unlikely. They can spin all they want, but there’s been so much covered that it will be taken with the proverbial grain of salt. If only the rest of MAGA could see this. It’s not at all what any of us expected. The whole “illegal immigrants” story has gotten very, very nasty. With all the abuse, plus the killing of two American citizens, a lot of people’s eyes have been opened. They know this is a disaster.
“To be clear, this report deserves serious skepticism. It very much bears watching whether ICE will actually end up deprioritizing the removal of noncriminal immigrants. Trump mostly wants the appearance of a pivot: According to the Journal, he wants a focus on ‘criminals‘ in GOP ‘messaging.'” Whether Trump removes Miller from his position is yet to be seen, but Sargent suggests that, until the president does so, it will be hard to soften immigration policy.
He wrote: “Trump can dress this up with spin about targeting ‘criminals‘ all he likes. But until all the ethnonationalist, civilizational-emergency-mongering nonsense is exorcised, the deeper problem will fester. “Trump believes all those ideas himself, but the depth of his commitment to them has never been all that clear. One doubts he’ll be so inclined, but should he ever want to end this madness, only one move on his part—a big personnel move—can truly put an end to it.”
That’s the problem in a nutshell. Mullin is the new head of DHS, and he’ll be worse than Gnome. Miller has the ego of a maniac and believes that whatever he says goes. Heh, the word that pops into mind to describe him is “aberrant”. No idea why my brain came up with that one. Miller is a trainwreck and is making life for the maladministration worse. Will he get kicked to the curb? I don’t know, but I think it is unlikely. Yet another person we’re stuck with.
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