Like Trump, Miller forged that identity while immersed in liberal communities, giving him cachet with fellow conservatives for waging his battles on opposition turf. “Osama Bin Laden would feel very welcome at Santa Monica High School,” he wrote in a letter to the editor at the time. In a column in his high school newspaper, titled “A Time to Kill,” he urged violent response to radical Islamists. “He came under a lot of fire, even from teachers.”At Duke, Miller wrote a biweekly column for the student newspaper that regularly aroused the ire of classmates. Miller wrote a series of columns about the case and appeared on national television to discuss it.

Source: Washington Post February 11, 2017 15:28 UTC