@thedailybeast: Stephen Miller wasn’t always a fixture on the far right. In fact, he was once a self-described liberal. That’s according to conservative commentator Larry Elder, who penned a column about the newly appointed White House chief of staff, tracing Miller’s political evolution back to when he first met him as a high school student. In a piece for Townhall, Elder, 74, recalled meeting Miller, 41, after the latter contacted his radio show to complain that Santa Monica High School, where he was a student, did not require students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. “That his school was ‘blatantly’ disregarding this ‘patriotic obligation,’ Stephen argued, does not bode well for the nation,” Elder wrote. “He created a groundswell.” Miller later appeared on Elder’s show 69 times. “He counted,” Elder wrote. Throughout that time, Elder said that he and Miller grew close—close enough that he met the man he credited with Miller’s total MAGA transformation. “I met Chris, Stephen’s close friend and classmate, who convinced Stephen, then a self-described liberal—like virtually everyone in Santa Monica—to re-think his assumptions,” he wrote. Check out the full story at the link in bio! __________________ Photos by Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/Alisa Kasmer/Facebook #StephenMiller #WhiteHouse #POTUS #Politics #GOP

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