Stephen Miller’s White Nationalism Is the Guiding Strategy of the Modern Republican Party

Before border-patrol agents separated migrant families, before the White House declared a ban on Muslims, before the U.S. Army deployed troops to the border, before the Trump administration’s raids, restrictions, and deportations, Steven Miller e-mailed Breitbart.

He was excited. It was March 2015. Miller, then an aide to the notoriously anti-immigration Alabama senator Jeff Sessions, had discovered the perfect occasion to condemn immigration. “They opened the Ted Kennedy center today in Boston,” Miller wrote to editor Katie McHugh. “Another opportunity to revisit the ’65 immigration law.” At the instigation of...