POLITICO reports:
Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats are publicly denying that they are the author of an anonymous New York Times op-ed detailing a "resistance" movement inside the Trump administration, in an extraordinary demonstration of how the editorial has rattled the highest levels of government.
Someone in the White House, possibly the Secretary of State, possibly the Vice-President, says that there's a movement within the Trump administration which has been secretly doing what most of America has been openly doing -- resisting Trump and his unhinged, anti-democratic policies.
On the one hand, yeah, this is a bombshell, and it's nice to have some confirmation -- I should say: some more confirmation, since this is not the first report of its kind -- that not even all of his own administration is with Trump. On the other hand: aren't you sick of how almost all comments by big-time Republican politicians saying what we all know are anonymous, off the record? Haven't you had enough of this attitude of: "Yes, he's a dangerous psycho and an out-and-out sociopath -- Buuuut, instead of doing something about it, let's just ride his administration out, as long as it may happen to last"? Not to mention all the speeches by both Democrats and Republicans at the very highest levels up to and including former Presidents, "clearly indicating Trump, without mentioning his name..."?
GROW A PAIR AND SAY IT RIGHT OUT LOUD IN PUBLIC: TRUMP IS MENTALLY UNFIT TO BE PRESIDENT, AND HE'S ALSO A CROOK, AND HE'S PLUNDERING THE COUNTRY AND CAUSING WIDESPREAD SUFFERING! THIS SHIT HAS GONE ON WAY TOO LONG!
That is my respectful message to the biggest political big-shots in the US. This is supposed to be a democracy. In a democracy, the important things are supposed to be handled openly. Publicly. I know they're not handled that way, but this would be a glorious opportunity to start to change that. Do what all of us little guys have been doing: say Trump's name when you say what you honestly think of him. Say it on the record. Say it on TV. The left wing of the Democratic Party and Steve Schmidt can't do this all by themselves. (God bless you, Mr Schmidt, btw.)
Well, since the Republicans who have had the power to remove Trump from office haven't been taking any action at all to do so, one can only hope that, after November, when the Democrats have the power, they will use it. It's true, the Democrats won't have 2/3 of the Senators after November, but they will have a majority, with which they will be able to put pressure on those Republican Senators who are awake enough to have noticed how supporting Trump's political career has tended to cause their own political careers to go down in flames.
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