"We're back": GOP hawks celebrate ascendance of Bolton, Pompeo

“It’s back to the good old days,” said one Republican operative and Bolton ally, who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid publicly criticizing friends of theirs pre-dating Bolton in the administration. “We’re back.”…

“With Tillerson and McMaster there were basically no normal conservative right wing kids getting national security jobs. Anybody who wrote an anti-Trump letter was iced out,” said the Bolton ally. “Now with Pompeo and Bolton, if it can last long enough, there’s a chance to mold another generation of conservative foreign policy types with real experience, a real network, and what does that meant for the next Republican administration? The people who work for Pompeo and Bolton could be the core of the movement for a long time to come.”