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How Stephen Miller Got What He Wanted From CNN

If people are laughing at the White House aide’s debate with Jake Tapper, that’s just fine with him.
Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

The first time I laid eyes on Stephen Miller was in October 2005, in a dingy conference room at Duke University. Miller’s Students For Academic Freedom had organized a discussion, with the campus chapter of the ACLU, . Miller came in a suit and tie; his primary interlocutor was the literary theorist Michael Hardt, who sauntered in wearing jeans and rumpled hair. Miller came with carefully prepared talking points and his now-trademark stentorian diction. Hardt refused to take him seriously, and casually dismantled his arguments for

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