In the public imagination, Stephen Miller is the dark heart of the Trump administration — a pulsing mass of anti-immigrant hatred behind its most aggressively authoritarian moves.

But what if there’s a different story to be told — that Stephen Miller’s obsession with deportations isn’t helping President Donald Trump secure control over the country, but actively undermining it?

Take Trump’s militarization of Washington, DC, as an example. The move is puzzling, in that it’s authoritarian in principle but ineffective in execution. While seemingly designed to expand Trump’s ability to control the American public, the on-the-ground deployments are doing nothing to repress protest — in fact, they’re assuredly generating far more resistance than they’re suppressing.

So what’s going on? The bes

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