Stephen Miller Into the Breach: How Susie Wiles’s Failures Portend Miller’s Future

By Chris Whipple

Miller, who once decreed that the president’s powers “are very substantial and will not be questioned,” is now the official charged with questioning the president’s decisions. It’s hard to imagine him doing that without a personality transplant.

There’s a time-honored tradition for new White House chiefs of staff: The outgoing chief invites former holders of the office, Republicans and Democrats, to a get-together (usually in the West Wing), where the newcomer is offered advice. But Donald Trump’s new chief, Stephen Miller—appointed in a jaw-dropping Truth Social post on Friday—won’t be getting a party. First, because the tradition applies only to a president’s first chief. Second, because no Democratic chief would likely want to be caught dead with Miller, a longtime basher of the opposition party. Shortly after hearing that Trump had picked the hard-right firebrand as his new chief, James Carville sent me a text that summed up the prevailing attitude: “This is like Caligula’s appointment of his horse as consul.”

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