'Can you also say go back where you came from?' Chris Wallace asked Stephen Miller, as the White House adviser described the 'color blind' society he believes Trump is working toward
Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images White House senior adviser Stephen Miller added to his list of TV interviews turned confrontational in an appearance on Fox News Sunday, when host Chris Wallace asked the far-right immigration hawk about Trump’s post-hoc attempt to distance himself from the Ilhan Omar-targeting “send her back” chant that he helped stoke at a North Carolina rally last week.
Wallace also played a reel of some of Trump’s more barbed attacks on the American project — some co-written by Miller himself — and asked how they might differ from the critiques from the four congresswomen of color Trump told to “go back” last weekend. Another widely shared clip from the interview pinpoints one of the most telling details from the last week of debate over lawmakers’ hesitancy to call the president’s tweets racist. Wallace says: “I completely — nobody has any problem with what the president’s policies have been, it’s when he goes into stoking racial fears” that Republicans begin to object.
Whatever discomfort GOP officials have with the president’s behavior is cosmetic. They object to the crudeness of the vessel. But its substance aligns firmly with their views. Some, like Walker, believe their shared policy vision so laudable as to be worth advertising and celebrating. The Trump presidency is not a new low. It is where the Republican Party — and America — has been headed for decades.
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