President Donald Trump, cornered after a disastrous midterm election, turned to Stephen Miller to be his new White House chief of staff, a move that heralded his plan for head-on confrontation with the new Democratic majority in Congress.
Trump and Miller will relish the fight — for a time, at least.
It is inevitable, though, that Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff who turned Trump’s darkest visions into policy, will overreach. It’s difficult to see how Miller pushing the powers of the presidency past their limit will help Republicans win back the voters who’ve turned their backs on Trump.
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