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Stephen Miller's 'radical ideas' face pushback from unlikely White House advisers: report
The State Does Not Drift Toward Cruelty. It Is Pushed.Power, Not ConfusionThe reporting describes an internal fight inside the Trump White House over two escalations: suspending habeas corpus to speed deportations, and invoking the Insurrection Act after immigration-related protests in Minnesota. Stephen Miller and JD Vance pushed; Will Scharf, David Warrington, and James Blair slowed or blocked. That is the factual skeleton. The political meaning is simpler: the machinery of the state was being tested for how far it could go before breaking the law.Who Was DrivingActual institutional power…
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