For much of Donald Trump’s first term in office, many of the president’s critics—Democrats and Republicans alike—clung to a simple, comforting idea : As bad as things were, they could be much worse. The president was obviously an idiot and a would-be authoritarian. But he was also surrounded by people who were competent and experienced, people like Defense Secretary James Mattis; his first chief of staff, Reince Priebus, a longtime Republican apparatchik; and his second, John Kelly, a retired

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