Susie Wiles is out as White House chief of staff. President Trump said Friday that Stephen Miller is taking the job, days after Republicans lost control of Congress. The New York Times reported the change. Miller has been the hard-line immigration aide beside Trump for years. He starts Monday.

Before the election, Trump said he had committed more than $400 million of his political money to Republican candidates. That was his super PAC operation, the ads and the rallies and the rest of it. A lot of the people he spent it on lost anyway.

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That is why she is gone. He spent the money. They lost. He lost the money and he lost the seats, and Ms. Wiles is the one carrying the blame.

It does not matter to him that those nominees never had a chance. His policies undercut them. The inflation did. The war did. The rest of what he did in office did. You cannot pour $400 million onto candidates the public has already turned against and then act surprised when the money is gone and the offices are gone with it.

Go back to the last time he ran. Everybody threw in to help him become president. Then he pulled the rug out. He went after the billions. He helped his son with that drone company. The people who had stood up for him were left with the losses.

Now he is blaming Ms. Wiles and handing the office to someone much further to the right. That will end worse for him, not better. A harder chief of staff does not fix an election the public already decided.

Someone said it in 2015. Trump was going to destroy the Republican Party. He basically has. The voters who stayed with him own a share of that too. This does not end well for Trump.