This feels like a good moment to remind all and sundry of one of the greatest moments of leadership in recent years:

“Our country right now, it’s got problems we don’t have in the military,” Mattis said. “You just hold the line until our country gets back to understanding and respecting each other and showing it.”

Like another military hero who was of more than military importance, he survives political service in the Trump era with honor intact.

They few, they happy few.