‘Susie Wiles is a great choice for President Trump’s chief of staff,’ said Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida and the man Donald Trump so humiliated in 2016.
Uh oh. Bush’s approval of the second Trump administration’s first major appointment instantly rang alarm bells in some quarters of the new American right.
Wiles, who ran Trump’s campaign with Chris LaCivita, is seen by some Trumpist insiders as a suspiciously old-fashioned operative, in hock to the moneyed interests who used to run the Republican party. Over the summer, we heard whispers of clashes between Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s most doggedly loyal aide, and Wiles and LaCivita over funding.
Wiles once wrote that her specialty is making ‘order out of chaos’
But Wiles is not some secret agent for NeverTrumpism. She worked on the Trump campaign in 2016, for starters, and she has been quietly instrumental in his revival over the last four years. Her elevation signals that Team Trump now wants to head towards a more harmonious Republican future. It
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