It’s anonymous, and it is entitled:
I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration
It’s written by someone identified by the editorial staff only as “a senior Trump official whose identity is known to us.” It was published anonymously at the author’s request.
The author has written this op-ed, it appears, because he (I mean I don’t KNOW it’s a he but…I’m 99% morally certain) just wants everyone to know that “there are adults in the room,” even though the author would also like to inform us that the actual President of the United States is an impulsive, amoral, “anti-democratic,” train wreck whose “leadership style” is “impetuous, adversarial, petty, and ineffective.” It’s OK, though, because he and his fellow “resistance” appointees are working to make sure that Buttercup doesn’t actually wreck the entire country before– “one way or another–it’s over.”
Clearly the author sees himself as an unsung hero, and he would like for us to do some singing about his great and mighty deeds, which have saved the Republic from its greatest threat. After all, thanks to him and his buddies, we have not ACTUALLY entered into a world war, but we DO have the shining SUCCESSES of Buttercup’s presidency, viz.: “effective deregulation, historic tax reform, a more robust military, and more.”
OK, one: these are not “successes.” They are going to fry the planet, supercharge economic inequality, and continue to bloat our international enforcement machine at the expense of the domestic reforms we all desperately need. So I already don’t like you, anonymous op-ed man. Or, wait–can I call you Creon? Yes. Yes, I think I will. Anyway, Creon, in recompense for whatever atoms of courage you scraped together with which to do this, I have some difficult truths I need to tell you. So meet me at Camera Three.
John Dean at least had the courage to go to the special prosecutor and spill everything he knew.
The New York Times has published possibly its most infuriating op-ed ever.
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