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Kirstjen Nielsen failed as a moderating force.<strong> </strong>Plus: the death of an adjunct professor and academia’s permanent underclass, the fall of Justin Trudeau, and more
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Attempting to act as a moderating force on the president is a futile act. Nielsen came into the role of Department of Homeland Security secretary 16 months ago with a decidedly un-Trumpian résumé—she’s a seasoned bureaucrat who has worked on homeland-security issues since the Bush administration, Her reputation was besmirched by the continuing chaos at DHS, capped most notoriously by its short-lived policy

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