WASHINGTON, July 31, 2017 White House Chief of Staff John Kelly (C) is pictured during a ceremony at the White House in Washington D.C., United States, on July 31, 2017. John Kelly, former secretary of homeland security, was sworn in as U.S. President Donald Trump's new White House Chief of Staff. (Credit Image: © Ting Shen/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire)
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly in an interview on Fox News tonight:
The lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War, and men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand where their conscience had them make their stand.
In a technical sense, it’s true enough that a lack of “compromise” led to the Civil War. Ditto for World War II. Also every other war ever fought. But it’s funny that Kelly, like so many conservatives these days, just can’t bring himself to say precisely what it was that had to be compromised. The s-word seems to be missing from his vocabulary.
