It’s unfortunately quite efficient. The idea is to make those who could form opposing thoughts, e.g. very bright cadets, be deprived of a framework to form those thoughts in. That way they will appear to be more more out of line and be easier to repress. Historically this works well. For a while.

Best possible outcome: This is the origin story for the ‘“Secret Library of Annapolis”, a key institution in the struggle for freedom during centuries of oppression’. Hmm. Too bleak?

… because that is what institutions overwhelmingly do when hit hard on the head by an authoritarian regime change: They collapse. The real threats to authoritarians is from grass roots power, so expect all kinds of civic groups to be put in the crosshairs once the courts are immobilized.

Ah. The Rule by Decree, a classic totalitarian method (in an earlier instance called “Führerbefehl”)

We read you. Loud and clear.

He’s laying down something for everyone with a mandate to do anything to pick up. Who will have the courage to do so?

Good!!!

«Praetorian Guard» is too kind a comparison. By analogy that would be the Secret Service, guarding the Emperor. A MAGA-ideologized FBI would be more akin to Gestapo.