The Stakes in This Election

Stephen Miller will be the anti-immigrant czar of a second Trump administration , says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: Anyone who remembers Trump ’s war on undocumented immigrants during his previous go-round as president can have little doubt that it will be Miller who will be charged with carrying out one of the few specific pledges that Trump has made repeatedly in the course of this year 's campaigning.

If Trump prevails at the polls, Miller will not be the odd man in this time around.

Julian Zelizer : Despite lip service to the cause of American workers, their policy toward organized labor will be that of Trump ’s designated “efficiency czar” Elon Musk .

He says the tariffs he slapped on Chinese and other imported products during his presidency did nothing to jump-start a return of American manufacturing.

Biden 's turn to industrial policy prompted the first measurable increase in factory construction in decades , Zelizer says.

Julian Zelizer: Harris would have to rein in some of her colleagues to deliver on her promises.

Zelizer says a second Trump term brings with it a constant war on enemies both real and imagined.

A second Trump administration will be almost uniformly staffed with aides who share his bigotries and hatreds, he says.