Steve Hilton: Mattis, Kelly marched to the establishment beat. Trump was right to fire them
Steve Hilton: Mattis, Kelly marched to the establishment beat. Trump was right to fire them
The new year began as the old year ended - with the establishment up in arms over generals leaving the Trump administration. How would the world survive the departures of John Kelly and James Mattis?
"Today has just been a cascade of what would be generally seen as absolutely apocalyptic news in any other presidency…Let's start tonight with the resignation of the Secretary of Defense James Mattis," Rachel Maddow lamented.
"Apocalyptic." Forget about war or disease or poverty. The apocalypse is when America's elected president is no longer supervised by the unelected ruling establishment. They even gave it a name - the "Committee to Save America." It included not just the military's Mattis and Kelly, but Exxon's Rex Tillerson and Goldman Sachs' Gary Cohn.
As we know, Americans voted for border security, including a wall. Well, not if the Committee to Save America had anything to do with it.
Former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly boasted to Democrat lawmakers last year that Donald Trump had not been "fully informed" when he promised a border wall and that the president had "evolved" on the issue after being educated by Kelly. He confirmed this to Fox News' anchor Bret Baier in an interview.
“He’s very definitely changed his attitude towards the DACA issue and even the wall, once we briefed him," he said.
Er, no, John Kelly. The president didn't change his attitude. You tried to change the president's attitude. You tried to "educate" him. But the chief of staff's job is to help implement the president's agenda, not educate him about why it's wrong.
With these generals, it was less disagree and commit than disagree and resist.
James Mattis, John Kelly, Rex Tillerson, Gary Cohn and all the rest of you in the self-regarding and self-aggrandizing Committee to Save America -- come on, then. Tell us. Tell us now, or we'll have to conclude that your real problem is with President Trump's policies -- policies which aim to overturn a half-century of your elitist ideological orthodoxy and which the American people explicitly voted for in an election.
It is the establishment's efforts to block those policies that truly undermine democratic norms and represent a threat to our Constitutional republic and the rule of law.
Steve Hilton: Mattis, Kelly marched to the establishment beat. Trump was right to fire them
The new year began as the old year ended - with the establishment up in arms over generals leaving the Trump administration. How would the world survive the departures of John Kelly and James Mattis?
"Today has just been a cascade of what would be generally seen as absolutely apocalyptic news in any other presidency…Let's start tonight with the resignation of the Secretary of Defense James Mattis," Rachel Maddow lamented.
"Apocalyptic." Forget about war or disease or poverty. The apocalypse is when America's elected president is no longer supervised by the unelected ruling establishment. They even gave it a name - the "Committee to Save America." It included not just the military's Mattis and Kelly, but Exxon's Rex Tillerson and Goldman Sachs' Gary Cohn.
As we know, Americans voted for border security, including a wall. Well, not if the Committee to Save America had anything to do with it.
Former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly boasted to Democrat lawmakers last year that Donald Trump had not been "fully informed" when he promised a border wall and that the president had "evolved" on the issue after being educated by Kelly. He confirmed this to Fox News' anchor Bret Baier in an interview.
“He’s very definitely changed his attitude towards the DACA issue and even the wall, once we briefed him," he said.
Er, no, John Kelly. The president didn't change his attitude. You tried to change the president's attitude. You tried to "educate" him. But the chief of staff's job is to help implement the president's agenda, not educate him about why it's wrong.
With these generals, it was less disagree and commit than disagree and resist.
James Mattis, John Kelly, Rex Tillerson, Gary Cohn and all the rest of you in the self-regarding and self-aggrandizing Committee to Save America -- come on, then. Tell us. Tell us now, or we'll have to conclude that your real problem is with President Trump's policies -- policies which aim to overturn a half-century of your elitist ideological orthodoxy and which the American people explicitly voted for in an election.
It is the establishment's efforts to block those policies that truly undermine democratic norms and represent a threat to our Constitutional republic and the rule of law.
