Stephen Miller is the new White House Chief of Staff. That’s the takeaway from losing both chambers of Congress in the biggest midterm rebuke in decades. Voters said “absolutely not” and Trump’s first move was to fire the one staffer even his critics admitted was competent.
Susie Wiles ran the 2024 campaign that actually won. She kept the building from collapsing for two years. Her reward for being the only adult in the room is getting replaced by the architect of family separation, the Muslim ban, and a losing streak of court battles that made first-year law students look good. Miller’s whole career is cruelty as policy, and now he runs the building.
The pivot to the center lasted about nine hours. He got crushed on Tuesday and by Thursday he’d picked the cruelest person in the building to run it. Welcome to the next two years.