Michael Goodwin: Its Stephen Miller time in the Trump admin threatened media and Dems are already spreading misinformation

There’s bad press, and then there’s the coverage of Stephen Miller’s promotion.In making Miller his new chief of staff, President Trump unleashed an avalanche of pent-up resentment toward his new top aide.The cruelest cut came from Rep.

Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrats’ House leader who wants to be the next speaker.He said his team would not work with Miller, whom he labeled a “stone cold racist.”The outrageous slander said more about the embattled Jeffries than it does Miller.

Still, there is no arguing with the reasonable view that the new White House chief’s style is not one that ­endears.Miller is whip smart and has a voluminous knowledge of government, laws and court precedents on immigration, all of which he routinely unloads on questioners in a machine-gun cadence.His demeanor often conveys contempt and his habit of talking down to people has made him a favorite whipping boy for Dems and their media handmaidens.Part of that reaction stems from the fact that Miller is the ultimate Trump loyalist and has been with the president since the 2016 campaign.As far back as his college days at Duke, Miller had a laser-like focus on immigration, which was long before Trump entered politics.As such, Miller’s promotion from policy deputy to former chief of staff Susie Wiles to her replacement seems almost inevitable.To judge from the river of bile flowing his way, detractors assume Miller will usurp all of Trump’s responsibility to set the agenda, and will be the only White House contact for the Dem congressional majority.As The New York Times put it in a bizarre front-page headline, “Miller pursues agenda voters have rejected.”Memo to the Gray Lady: Trump will remain president for the next two years, and the Dem Congress will not control the government.Some of the anti-Miller hyperbole reflects how the president’s harshest critics tend to see the aide as a reflection of what they regard as Trump’s inner darkness.Indeed, Trump himself has admit...