Keep in mind, too that this is not necessarily a good thing. Kelly isn’t there to save US democracy from Trump, he’s there to ensure that the machine functions and that Trump’s agenda can succeed. The worse thing than incompetent Nazis? Competent ones. Kelly is military: as long as the objectives aren’t wildly illegal, he sees it as his job to make it happen. He is also steeped in a profoundly non-democratic culture, therefore probably has a lot more tolerance for authoritarianism so won’t see most of the objectives as a problem. This could be a massive problem for almost everyone else.
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