gcomeau wrote:This is probably worse than the Woodward book.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opin ... tance.htmlThat is a senior White House official sounding the alarm that there are entire groups of people inside this administration who are maintaining their jobs there only for the purposes of trying to keep Trump from destroying the country. It is full of a point by point deconstruction of everything that makes Trump simply unfit for office.
Some of the more damning highlights...
The root of the problem is the president’s amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making.
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In addition to his mass-marketing of the notion that the press is the “enemy of the people,” President Trump’s impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic.
Note, that is small "d" democratic. As in, anti-democracy. Something that has been pointed out in these forums time after time and laughed off as left wing hysteria by certain apologists on this forum. Now here it is from inside hiw own admin...
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.
“There is literally no telling whether he might change his mind from one minute to the next,” a top official complained to me recently, exasperated by an Oval Office meeting at which the president flip-flopped on a major policy decision he’d made only a week earlier.
Yeah that's what you want in the leader of the country... "half baked ill informed" reckless impulsiveness that he just throws out and then changes on a whim at any minute.
Take foreign policy: In public and in private, President Trump shows a preference for autocrats and dictators, such as President Vladimir Putin of Russia and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and displays little genuine appreciation for the ties that bind us to allied, like-minded nations.
Another point made on these forums and dismissed by his apologists as unfounded.
Etc....
The summary of the article, which I don't think the author necessarily intended to communicate, is that America is being led by a completely unfit ignorant unstable tantrum throwing man child who has leanings towards wanting to be a dictator... but don't worry his staff is sabotaging all his impulses wherever they can, covering for him, and often just plain ignoring the ranting crybaby they are babysitting to keep in power as a figurehead and setting their own agenda so they can get tax breaks and stuff...
He should have been impeached a freaking year ago.
