"Hatemonger" as Chief of Staff: Trump Taps Stephen Miller to Top Role After Massive Election Defeat

Stephen Miller, the architect of the Trump administration’s mass deportation policies, has replaced Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff. In a recent 60 Minutes interview, President Donald Trump acknowledged that his immigration policies may be “too tough” and contributed to his party’s steep losses in the midterm elections, but in elevating Miller, he is “choosing to double down,” says journalist Jean Guerrero. “Stephen Miller enables [Trump] in this instinct to choose cruelty over everything else,” she says.

Guerrero is a New York Times contributing opinion writer, USC journalism professor and author of Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda.