Infamy

This is an attack on our democracy, our way of life, and not just by the criminals who assaulted our Congress today.  The good news is our Constitution is strong, and our people are overwhelmingly devoted to the rule of law.  What we need to do going forward -- what we have to do as a people -- not as Democrats, or Republicans, or independents, but as Americans, is to ask ourselves how did we ever get to this place.  We need to look infinitely harder at who we elect to any office in our land.  At the office seeker's character, at their morals, at their ethical record, their integrity, their honesty, their flaws, what they have said about women, and minorities, why they are seeking office in the first place, and only then consider the policies they espouse.

-- General John Kelly, USMC, retired (1950 -), former U.S. Marine Corps general who served as White House Chief of Staff for President Donald Trump from July 31, 2017, to January 2, 2019; he had previously served as Secretary of Homeland Security in the Trump administration, "Statement from General John Kelly, USMC (ret.)", at American Security Project (7 January 2021)