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Dulcinea

(6,629 posts)
Thu May 31, 2018, 08:18 AM May 2018

Stephen Miller: Trump's Right-Hand Troll

It’s late on a Friday afternoon in March, and I’m sitting across from Stephen Miller in his spacious, sunlit West Wing office, trying to figure out whether he’s trolling me.

This is no easy task. A provocateur as skilled as Miller doesn’t just announce when he’s saying something outlandish to get a rise out of you—he tries to make you think he means it. So you have to look for the subtle tells. The fleeting half-smirk when he refers to himself as a “conservative social-justice warrior” early in the conversation. The too-emphatic tone he takes later when he says the best movie he’s seen in the past 15 years is The Dark Knight Rises, and then chides you for not properly appreciating its commentary on the French Revolution.

“It takes on the issue of anarchy and social breakdown in a really interesting way,” he says of the Batman movie. “There’s a lot going on in the film that you, of all people, I’d have thought would be all over.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/stephen-miller-trump-adviser/561317/

Evil, slimy little creep.

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Stephen Miller: Trump's Right-Hand Troll (Original Post) Dulcinea May 2018 OP
"evil, slimy little creep" MBS May 2018 #1

MBS

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1. "evil, slimy little creep"
Thu May 31, 2018, 09:28 AM
May 2018

Boy are you ever right. He is pure poison. I feel like I need to take a second shower after reading this. .

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