White House Deputy Chief Of Staff Stephen Miller speaks to members of the media outside the White House on August 29, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller vowed Friday that he and President Donald Trump would use this week's assassination of Charlie Kirk to "dismantle" the organized left using state power.
Voices that you hear out there, those crazy communists, they have no roots. These demonstrators that you've seen out here in recent days, all of these elderly white hippies, they're not part of the city and never have been. And, by the way, most of the citizens who live in Washington, D.C., are black. This is not a city that has had any safety for its black citizens for generations, and President Trump is the one who is fixing that.
Do Democrats need their own Stephen Miller? That's what the Rolling Stone journalist Asawin Suebsaeng reports hearing from many people on the left. Imagining a progressive version of Donald Trump's far-right-hand man is hard enough, much less justifying why this might be a good thing. But the idea seems inevitable in a party that has already launched searches for a Democratic Joe Rogan, a Democratic Donald Trump, and a Democratic Project 2025.
We are not going to let the communists destroy a great American city, let alone the nation's capital All these demonstrators that you've seen out there in recent days, all of these elderly white hippies, they're not part of this city and never have been.
"If he hasn't stepped over the line, he's just on the verge of it," Virginia Canter, counsel for ethics and anticorruption at Democracy Defenders Fund, told the Project on Government Oversight.
