The New York Times has written a lengthy profile of top Trump aide Stephen Miller, who will be more powerful than ever in the president-elect's second White House.
The profile contains a number of tidbits about Miller's strategy for the second Trump term that will include radical executive orders aimed at curbing immigration into the United States.
Among other things, the orders being drafted by Miller and his allies include "attempting to end birthright citizenship; designating drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations; and reinstating Title 42, which allows the United States to seal the border with Mexico if there is a public health threat," writes the Times.
Miller is also calculating that he will succeed by what the Times describes as "flooding the zone" — that is, by doing so many outrageous things that Trump's political opponents will simply grow exhausted and give up fighting.
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"He believes that those he regards as Mr. Trump’s enemies — Democrats, the media, groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and portions of the federal bureaucracy — are depleted and only have so much bandwidth for outrage and opposition," writes the Times. "Mr. Miller has told people that the goal is to overwhelm them with a blitz of activity."
Additionally, the report documents how Miller has risen to prominence despite or because of the fact that even many of his fellow Republicans regard him as a racist.
In fact, one of the Times' sources says that even Trump once made a joke about Miller's ideal country would be one where everybody looked like him, although a Trump spokesperson denies that he ever made such a remark.