analysis Trolling Stephen Miller is causing conservative media to feign outrage Published May 30, 2026 9:00AM (EDT) White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is known for his offensive insults against Democrats (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) For nearly a decade, Democrats have been trapped in a paralyzing cycle of rhetorical hand-wringing. Ever since Donald Trump first upended the political landscape in 2015, the opposition party has faced an identity crisis over messaging strategy, endlessly debating how to counter racist social media trolling and raw cruelty as primary modes of communication. For years, the party line remained tethered to Michelle Obama’s famous “when they go low, we go high” doctrine — a philosophy rooted in institutional respectability politics.…