Morning in America again! Trumps first hire Susie Wiles will deliver a Reagan 2.0 vision

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.— Donald Trump’s second administration is starting off on the best possible footing with the hire of Susie Wiles as chief of staff — putting him in position to create the most optimistic and forward-looking Republican White House since the 1980 election. There was a time — and it wasn’t too long ago — Wiles wasn’t universally known.Now?The northeast-Florida-based strategist has the prominence she’s always deserved.Wiles has had a career with nothing but successes, guiding Rick Scott to the Florida governor’s mansion long before he made his latest play to lead the Senate, then sherpaing a largely unknown and undefined Ron DeSantis to the same position.I’ve had a front row seat for both.But her greatest triumph is the latest one — the major role she had in not just helping get Donald Trump elected president with a popular vote majority few predicted and an Electoral College landslide but ensuring the president-elect’s final campaign was his best one.The Trump campaign faced cash disadvantages, not to mention a media in the tank for the defeated Democratic nominee.

But where it had the ultimate advantage, beyond candidate quality, was in the president-elect’s prescient hires of Chris LaCivita and Wiles.They were, from beginning to end, the adults in the room.Wiles dealt with challenges from interlopers inside the tent, including the Trump’s curious decision to let lunatic Laura Loomer onto Trump Force One for trips to the debate with Kamala Harris and a 9/11 memorial ceremony (notable particularly because Loomer thinks the attack on America was an inside job).That news cycle mercifully ended, and Loomer was banished from the inner circle to whatever adjunct role she’s in today. Add to that what some call a coup attempt from former Trump aide Corey Lewandowski, brought in by the president for reasons less than strategic.He attempted to subvert campaign leadership and the rigorous and disciplined hierarchy.Wiles surviv...