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NPR really worked hard not to call Stephen Miller a white nationalist just now.
And @NPRinskeep just said that “both sides” are appealing to their most extreme base on immigration and he and @MaraLiasson provided no example of this on the Dems/left, because there isn’t one.
Trump and Miller aren’t just “playing” to the extreme base on immigration and race. They share those beliefs and have been quite open about it all their lives.
Meanwhile the default position among Dem party leaders is: abide by international assylum laws, protect dreamers, give them and others a pathway to citizenship, use smart border fortification, don’t separate kids from families.
Trump and Miller are the standard bearers of the most extreme immigration/race views in GOP, and by “both siding” it, @NPRinskeep lets them slide that Overton window right over...
ALSO: so much water carrying for Javanka, who always want us to know they diverge with Trump on immigration. Oh yeah? They brought in Sessions/Miller. They were happy to play footsie with Bannon. They’re happy to advance the most extreme version of their white privilege.
So @NPRinskeep and some fans would like me to correct the record that it was not he, co-host, who was running this segment. Which happy to do. Here's the transcript and the audio. Judge for yourself if the critique that I and others have raised seems fair: npr.org/2019/04/10/711…
