Trump’s reaction to the midterm election results has been distinctly odd. He has not, as I expected, launched multiple legal challenges, tried to intimidate election officials or even taken to Truth Social to denounce all the stupendous losses as being the result of some great conspiracy to cheat him out of his proper rewards. No, he’s been remarkably calm and quiescent. He’s even talked about working with the Democrat controlled Congress to get things done. But before anyone thinks he might have had some sort of epiphany, note that he ditched his Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles and appointed Stephen Miller, her former deputy, in her place. This move is perhaps the worst thing he could have done.
Chris Hayes, a host on the TV Channel MS NOW says
If you were thinking: what could Trump do to push his approval rating down even further and open up the possibility of a 1964/1980/2008 style victory for Dems in 2028? The answer is: put Stephen Miller in charge of everything. And guess what?
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) 6 November 2026 at 19:10
I believe Miller, AKA Voldemort, has always been the real power behind the throne, the puppet master controlling everything that has happened since January 2025 that has brought the GOP to the brink of extinction. But at least Wiles had a slightly moderating role. Now, she's gone.
In a poll earlier this year, Miller was the least liked of 27 senior Trump administration members. He has been described as a “hate-filled extremist” and has even had a book written about him: Hate Monger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda. Imagine having enough material for an entire book on your level of hate!
Wiles was the figurehead, but she had little influence while Miller’s fingerprints were all over the worst excesses of the second Trump administration. She has been dismissed, and he has been promoted. For anyone unfamiliar with him, I recommend this Substack post by Lance Frosen.
Here’s the key bit:
"Stephen Miller is a devotee of Adolf Hitler’s Crown Jurist and legal advisor Professor Carl Schmitt. Schmitt was the author of the so-called “exception doctrine” and the “unitary executive theory” of the presidency under which a strongman dictatorship can effectively suspend the constitution, ban Parliaments and impose extra-legal authority in times of 'national emergency'."
"Schmitt wrote the legal opinion under which Hitler’s seizure of total power after the Reichstag Fire was justified and codified. Schmitt did the same after Hitler’s 'Night Of The Long Knives' bloody purge, leaving at least 500 of his political opponents dead in one night, including former Chancellor Kurt Von Schleicher and his wife who were accused of a coup plot. Schmitt wrote, 'The Führer protects the law'."
And:
"And not insignificant is that another layer of onion has been peeled back which illustrates how completely out of it Trump is at present, how he is in no sense a fit or functional president, and meanwhile another group of unelected criminal minds are running the White House in his name."
Sam Freedman, a senior fellow at the Institute for Government, says he is the most dangerous man in America. And if you think that’s an exaggeration, listen to this interview with Jake Tapper at CNN:
Stephen Miller: This whole period that happened after World War II where the West began apologizing and groveling and begging— Host: I don't even know what you're talking about right now. I asked you if there would be an election in Venezuela.— FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) 6 November 2026 at 19:39
He is a seriously deranged individual. His promotion reveals just how stupid Trump is. The Republicans' disastrous showing last Tuesday is entirely down to the hard-line agenda Miller has been responsible for, and his response is to give him unrivalled power to go even further.
Miller saw this coming. According to Frosen, based on sources inside the White House, Miller and Russel Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget and co-author of Project 2025, have developed contingency plans to govern without Congress, to behave as if it didn’t exist at all.
Effectively, Miller and Vought, both unelected, will hijack the US government and rule by decrees signed by a dementia ridden Trump. Miller is now de facto president of the USA.
This situation will, I hope, precipitate the implosion of the Republican Party. Politico reported that one House Republican, when informed that Trump had named Miller his chief of staff, replied: “Please tell me you’re lying to me right now, just to get a reaction.”
"Republicans on Capitol Hill and inside the Trump administration are questioning how and whether they can break with the president now after having green-lit much of his agenda, according to more than a dozen GOP lawmakers, senior aides and Trump officials interviewed for this story".
The Atlantic reports that someone familiar with Trump's thinking said Miller is needed because nothing is going to get done with Congress anyway, so a conciliator isn't needed: “The next two years are going to be nonstop political warfare,” and Miller could do that job.
J D Vance once said Trump was America’s Hitler. If that’s true, Miller is America’s Himmler.
I may be wrong, but I think we might see the 25th Amendment used to remove Trump from office before too long. Vance and others must know that Miller and Vought are trying to usurp presidential powers, and Trump is slowly descending into madness.
On his loss-making Truth Social platform, he has already demanded that the Department of Justice investigate Democrats who are calling for members of his administration to be impeached, suggesting that it's a form of extortion! And some in the MAGA movement have started to question the results of the midterms. Trump has reposted these claims, so look out for more of this:
Election denialists are now in the "improbable results" & "suspicious statistics" stage — mischaracterizing data/results from the midterms to allege election fraud. This conversation has been growing over the last few days. After initially accepting results, Trump is engaging in denialism today.
— Kate Starbird (@katestarbird.bsky.social) 8 November 2026 at 01:07
At the moment, JD Vance is desperate to get a ceasefire with Iran while Pete Hegseth is trying to persuade Trump and Miller to launch another wave of attacks on Iranian nuclear infrastructure. It can’t continue like this for much longer.
There may be an unbridgeable schism developing between the MAGA movement and the Republican Party. In 2028, the Democrats could exceed their own wildest dreams. The long nightmare is coming to an end.
Farage: The Future is Growing Dim
The US midterms were also a setback for Farage. Ever since 2016, he has aligned himself with Trump. The Reform UK leader will forever be remembered for the image of them standing, grinning stupidly, in a gold-plated elevator at Trump Tower in New York, taken on November 12, 2016, shortly after Trump's US presidential election victory.
Remember this:
Farage thought this was going to propel him into Downing Street. He will never, ever, live it down.
Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, has a nice article on this in Prospect magazine.
So fawning was Farage that he even criticised Starmer initially for refusing to join the Iran war or allow the use of British military bases. Farage argued that an operation to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon was justified. He also wanted a DOGE-style watchdog in Britain and mass deportations for immigrants.
Farage was sinking in the polls before today, but the latest setback will only add to his woes. The latest Ashcroft poll puts Reform UK thirteen points behind Labour and eight behind the Tories!! His role model has become one of the most hated politicians in the world and is now a lame, dementia-ridden duck, controlled by an evil Svengali.
It can only get worse for Nigel Farage.
