The Resistance Within Trumpland

The New York Times just an hour ago published a stunning op-ed from an anonymous senior official in the Trump administration, detailing its disturbing realities.  Here's the opening:

"President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.

It’s not just that the special counsel looms large. Or that the country is bitterly divided over Mr. Trump’s leadership. Or even that his party might well lose the House to an opposition hellbent on his downfall.

The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

I would know. I am one of them.

It gets more chilling from there, with the official saying that fellow appointees are trying to insulate their agencies from his irrational whims:

"From the White House to executive branch departments and agencies, senior officials will privately admit their daily disbelief at the commander in chief’s comments and actions. Most are working to insulate their operations from his whims.

Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails, he engages in repetitive rants, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back." (our emphasis)

The author mentions that the 25th Amendment which is designed to remove an impaired President has been discussed at the highest levels of his administration:

"Given the instability many witnessed, there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex process for removing the president. But no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis. So we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until — one way or another — it’s over.

The bigger concern is not what Mr. Trump has done to the presidency but rather what we as a nation have allowed him to do to us. We have sunk low with him and allowed our discourse to be stripped of civility." (our emphasis)

It appears that someone took the memorial eulogies for John McCain to heart before they sat down to write this piece. It confirms every excerpt we're read from Bob Woodward's "Fear" and even Omorosa's "Unhinged." Too bad it took anonymity to produce it. As Trump becomes more isolated and under siege, expect more of this type of manifesto getting out.