This is a quote from Politico. I'd forgotten all this. Apparently, Preibus was a pretty good chairman until the Trumpster came along.
"It has been a surprising final chapter for the longest-serving RNC chairman in history.
In six years, Priebus erased a $24 million budget deficit, made huge investments in data, minority outreach and voter-registration efforts in swing states and is routinely hailed as one of the best fundraisers ever to lead the party, having hauled in nearly $850 million in five years. He could rightly be compared to some of the party’s most successful chairmen — from Leonard Hall, who first saw the possibility of the country’s growing suburbs in the Eisenhower years, to Ray Bliss, who rebuilt the party after Barry Goldwater’s 1964 wipeout.
But Trump’s unexpected rise last fall presented Priebus with a choice: continue to fight for the vision of the more modern, inclusive GOP he had laid out three years earlier or finish out his third and likely final term as, in the words of Bill Kristol, an “obedient, compliant apparatchik willing to subordinate a grand old party to a new strongman.”
