Based on past performance, seems the advice he will receive going forward will turn the racism up to 147, ditto the tendency to rule by diktat. It could be that he will simply abandon any pretense of trying to work with a Dem majority Congress and go full dictator.

I certainly agree that he'll soon abandon the pretense of trying to work with Congress, because that doesn't make sense for either of them. He generally was ignoring Congress even when the Republicans controlled it, which is why so much of his "accomplishments" are written in sand - he didn't even try very much to pursue a legislative agenda, other than perhaps the SAVE Act and the crypto bill. And the politics won't allow Congress to reach any compromises with Trump, either, except on the most "must-pass" of things.

Apart from that, it's two years of gridlock, messaging bills, and vetoes. Congress is going to be overseeing the sh!t out of him, and he's going to be fighting the oversight - and he's going to be exercising Executive power as far as the law allows (and then some), and Congress will be fighting and suing over that.

That would have been the case even if Wiles had stayed, which is why I hold open the possibility that both Trump and Wiles might have decided that her productive time in that role was over. Trump's going to have to go to the mattresses for the next two years, and I can't see that being appealing to Wiles - or her necessarily being the best person for that very different role. Trump no longer needs someone who can get things done; he needs someone that can stop things from being done to him.

Not that Miller is a great choice, but he's 100% Trump's own henchperson and can be as ruthless as anyone, so he might be better than any other person who'd be willing to take on that role.