Rep. Matt Gaetz’s recent withdrawal as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general represented a significant early setback for Trump’s nascent effort to wreck shop in American government — and possibly seek his promised retribution against his political foes and the “enemy within.”

Kashyap “Kash” Patel, President-elect Donald Trump‘s pick to lead the FBI, has been a Trump loyalist for years. The two have shared the same distrust of the FBI, but Patel has made his thoughts of overhauling the FBI known through interviews and his book,

Powerful MAGA voices are hailing him as their No. 1 avenger to hunt down and decapitate the modern-day Hydra known as the “deep state,” a central villain of the conspiracy theory that gained momentum during Trump’s first term in office.