Stephen Miller has expanded his power in the White House 'because there is no one else there'

Baby Goebbels with unfettered access to Shitler . . . What could go wrong?

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/stephen-miller-expanded-power-white-house-no-one-else/

The Guardian’s Washington DC bureau chief David Smith wondered Monday why Trump appears to be committing political suicide. After all, the border wall is not a popular idea: 69 percent of respondents polled by NPR in December said that the wall was not a priority for them. Unsurprisingly, a large number of federal workers oppose the shutdown, despite President Trump’s frequent claims that federal workers want a wall so badly they’re willing to forego pay.

Smith concludes that Trump continues to pursue the unpopular policy because many of the president’s more moderate advisors have vacated the administration, leaving extremists like Stephen Miller and Mick Mulvaney as the president’s chief counselors.

Miller helped craft the zero tolerance policy that led to kids getting separated from their parents at the border. He’s an ardent supporter of the wall. Meanwhile, Mulvaney’s brand of conservatism favors limiting the power of the federal government.

“Stephen Miller has become the singular voice on immigration in the White House. It does appear he has achieved the role he was blocked from by Steve Bannon, John Kelly and to an extent Jim Mattis. Now there is no one to block him,” Wendy Schiller, a political science professor at Brown University, explained.