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"The former White House adviser Katie Miller—mother of three young children,
and wife of the presidential right-hand man Stephen—walked out of her front
door one Thursday morning last month and was confronted by a woman she did not
know. When she told this story on
Fox News, she described the encounter as a
protest that crossed a line. The stranger had told Miller: “I’m watching you,”
she said. This was the day after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. It also wasn’t
anything new.
For weeks before Kirk’s death, activists had been protesting the Millers’
presence in north Arlington, Virginia. Someone had put up wanted posters in
their neighborhood with their home address, denouncing Stephen as a Nazi who
had committed “crimes against humanity.” A group called Arlington Neighbors
United for Humanity warned in an Instagram post: “Your efforts to dismantle our
democracy and destroy our social safety net will not be tolerated here.” The
local protest became a backdrop to the Trump administration’s response to
Kirk’s killing. When Miller, the architect of that response who is known for
his inflammatory political rhetoric, announced a legal crackdown on liberal
groups, he singled out the tactics that had victimized his family—what he
called “organized campaigns of dehumanization, vilification, posting peoples’
addresses.”
Stephen Miller soon joined a growing list of senior Trump-administration
political appointees—at least six by our count—living in Washington-area
military housing, where they are shielded not just from potential violence but
also from protest. It is an ominous marker of the nation’s polarization, to
which the Trump administration has itself contributed, that some of those top
public servants have felt a need to separate themselves from the public. These
civilian officials can now depend on the U.S. military to augment their
personal security. But so many have made the move that they are now straining
the availability of housing for the nation’s top uniformed officers."
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