Retrospective on Trump’s Counterterrorism Adviser

A bit of context for Donald Trump’s endorsement of Viktor Orbán

Tucker Lieberman

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Nearly five years ago, during the first year of the Trump administration, John Nichols published Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse: A Field Guide to the Most Dangerous People in America. As he described it: “This book is not about Donald Trump, per se. This book is about Trumpism — the combination of propaganda and power, paranoia and plutocracy — that now grips America.”

As a “field guide” (indicated in the subtitle), it introduces readers to some important figures in the administration’s first months. Those who headline the chapters:

Robert Mercer, Rebekah Mercer, Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, Stephen Miller, Jeff Sessions, Rod Rosenstein, Kris Kobach, James Mattis, Patrick Shanahan, Mick Mulvaney, H. R. McMaster, Mike Pompeo, Nikki Haley, David Friedman, Wilbur Ross, Rex Tillerson, Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer, Omarosa Manigault, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, John Kelly, Alexander Acosta, Andrew Giuliani, Neil Gorsuch, Mike Pence, Elaine Chao, Tom Price, Seema Verma, Betsy DeVos, Scott Pruitt, Ryan Zinke, Newt Gingrich, Robert Walker, Ben Carson, Rick Perry, Sonny Perdue, Ajit Pai, Steven Mnuchin, Jay Clayton, Gary Cohn.

We recognize their names well by now. Some departed the administration early, some lasted to the bitter end, and some remain in Trump’s good graces even today, for what that is worth. How important they…

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