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And the operatives could depend on one hard-edged principle: that those who style themselves as men of the world know there is an iron fist in every velvet glove, understand what might await them in the shadows and so, having decided to play the game, they will obey its rules.

Nobody can pick or choose which laws or which injunctions they obey, or which they do not.

Harris said the Kelly interview, along with the “enemy from within” comments, show that Trump wants a military that would be more akin to a “personal militia” that is loyal to him personally and would “obey his orders even when he tells them to break the law or abandon their oath to the Constitution of the United States.”

“McConnell runs the largest Republican super PAC in the country and has $400 million,” Cruz said, “but that super PAC is used to reward the Republican senators who obey him and to punish those who dare to stand up to him.”

‘Well, he didn't actually, people didn't obey him,’ right?