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Just finished Border Wars by @jhdavis and @shearm. It does a great job of capturing a key dynamic of the Trump presidency: strategic bumbling and indiscipline by Trump dooms his big legislative initiatives, but henchmen succeed in working lots of evil below the radar.
Seriously, Trump comes across as exactly the clown, bully, and ignoramus you'd expect, but Miller is laser-focused on doing as much as he can as quickly as he can throughout the bureaucracy.
If we ever have a Dem administration again, it's going to take a bureaucratic root canal to cure the rot and decay folks like Stephen Miller have spread through the agencies in the form of regs, guidance, changed policies, etc.
We never hear about this in the debates, but it's going to be the most important task of the next Dem administration.
Dems need right now to be studying the work of Stephen Miller -- both to know what to reverse ASAP on taking office, and to see a model of how to be aggressive in identifying and exploiting all available bureaucratic tools to achieve the administration's objectives.
TL;DR: The important thing isn't Trump's clownish bumbling; it's Miller's aggressive, below-the-radar work to make massive changes in our immigration system.
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