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Stephen Miller, senior adviser to President Donald Trump arrives for a meeting with business leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 30, 2017. CREDIT: AP Photo/Evan Vucci

President Donald Trumps top adviser, former Breitbart CEO Steve Bannon, is widely viewed as the leader of the administrations nationalist-populist winga more palatable euphemism for the white nationalist coterie that tried to block travel to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority countries and is currently spearheading a deportation spree across the United States.

As Bannons influence within the administration has diminished, many commentators have taken this as a sign that his ideology has also fallen out of favor with the president, to be replaced by the ostensible technocratic moderation of son-in-law-in-chief Jared Kushner.

But Bannon isnt the only apostle of Bannonism in the White House. And as his star fades, the power of another extreme nationalist seems to be growing.

On Thursday night, Politico reported that senior adviser Stephen Miller has managed to endear himself to Kushner and is now working closely with Kushners Office of American Innovation. Up until now, Millers biggest policy achievement was helping to draft both versions of Trumps Muslim ban executive orderand then inadvertently sinking the second bans chances of surviving a legal challenge by announcing on national television that both orders had the same intent.

Millera protege of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, another member of the administrations hard line ethno-nationalist campalso wrote both Trumps inaugural American carnage address, and, reportedly, his I alone can fix it speech to the Republican National Convention.

If Miller is gaining more sway over the administrations policy agenda, then Bannons apparent demotion means little. The Pepe brigade still has plenty of friends in the West Wing.

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