stop letting the media take a common occurrence in any administration as some “sign” of something, and expound on it for days.
Sometimes people leave for personal reasons.
First of all, it is very unusual for White House staffers to stay 4 or 8 years. It’s just the nature of the job and the huge stress that goes with it. Second of all, it is not at all unusual for staffers to leave after a midterm election because the DC calendar largely runs on election cycles. Ask most staffers how long they plan to stay in a job and they’ll tell you “until after the next election.”