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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Charles Kaiser

Blowback review: Miles Taylor on the dangers of a second Trump term

Donald Trump disembarks from Air Force One in Charlotte, North Carolina in October 2020.
Donald Trump disembarks from Air Force One in Charlotte, North Carolina, in October 2020. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

Miles Taylor is a former chief of staff of the US Department of Homeland Security who catapulted himself to nameless fame in the fall of 2018, when he published an anonymous op-ed in the New York Times under this headline: “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration.”

Taylor described himself then as one of many senior officials “working diligently from within to frustrate parts of [Trump’s] agenda and his worst inclinations … To be clear, ours is not the popular ‘resistance’ of the left. We want the administration to succeed … But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.”

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