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He has never had power of his own because he's too much of an outlandish cartoon character. He just wormtongues his way from office to office. A lot of people think it's an act, and to some degree it is, but it also isn't. This is the weird, foggy area that guys like this exist in, where there doesn't seem to be a boundary between feverish fantasy and reality. Everything is a comic book or stage-play to them.
I used to talk to incels and the like, I had success in the late aughts turning self-identified incels just by one-on-one time and chat and listening. It was exhausting and I felt like for every young dude I helped, 30 more incels would suddenly appear and start shitting on our online spaces and forums. It was like patching a dam that was bursting. More often than not they sounded JUST like Miller.
Over-the-top performance and grandiose statements, delivered stilted and awkwardly, unreal levels of boast and self-aggrandizing. If you listen to infamous incels like Elliot Rogers, you will notice they talk JUST like Stephen Miller.
All those dumb kids grew up, and were only reinforced by the grift-o-sphere, and they all moved on and got jobs and positions of power, but they never changed. Miller is one of them. He just learned where he can make the most impact, and it turns out wormtonguing the goddamn president himself was a very lucrative position.
My only consolation is that as soon as Trump keels over, any fukkin day, Miller will have ZERO power. It will be glorious.