>Maybe he WAS a patriot.
It's not how you start. It's how you finish.
>Although, Mattis had an extremely effective PR/campaign team leading into all of this. Many Marines like and respect him, so his betrayal was likely orchestrated specifically for that cause, to get Marines to follow him rather than to follow the President and/or the Constitution.
My Marine son loved Mattis. Now he hates his fucking guts.