Kelly's on the way out according to Vanity Fair

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13. Kelly's profile has been rising lately, and that never pleases Lord Littlehands

I read a book a few years ago about Lavrenty Beria, the head of Stalin's secret police. Stalin was famously paranoid about anyone seeming to rise too high, and Beria was very sensitive about appearing too indispensable. The penalty for drawing Stalin's unwanted attention was at best internal exile, but imprisonment and execution were always available options as well. Early in the 1950s, a young man was in a low level position in Beria's bureaucracy. As the men above him were cashiered, he rose quickly through the ranks. His sudden appearance on the scene drew Stalin's gaze and triggered his fear. The young man disappeared even more quickly than he had appeared.

The author's prose generated the mental picture for me of the young man edging too close to an out-of-control machine and getting summarily sucked into the gear works and annihilated. Kelly sounds like he's on the same career path, though thankfully for Kelly, President Trump doesn't have quite the extra-legal tools at his disposal that Stalin did.