CommentsMY TURN--This entire administration has been compared to the Nixon era travesty, and yet what we are going through is far worse than the Watergate theft and reveal.
We are living part of history that is exposing an entire party participating in treason and an unfit madman living in the White House while he and his family profit from the position. The Op-ed exposure of someone within the inner circle of the administration coming forward has been compared to the “Deep Throat” situation, but this is totally and completely different. Where Deep Throat wanted to expose the fraud, theft and underhanded conditions in the administration, this Op-ed individual simply wants to maintain the conservative agenda while keeping Trump from making bad decisions.
These two situations are NOT the same!
The Op-Ed insider is enabling the continuation of a devastating Republican strategy — and has no interest in exposing all of the deceit and is NOT a part of the “resistance.”
The decision to publish the Op-Ed by the New York Times returns to the days of media truth and is frankly, incredibly refreshing. It appears The Times is showing the television media “how reporting is done”. In an era when we have witnessed the television stations selling their souls and the country out for ratings while they give any wacko enough air time that it actually elected him, The Times has stepped forward to remind America what Freedom of the Press is all about. This is not to say that The Times didn’t expect readership to sky rocket, but you have to understand that this type of exposure is a double-edged sword and the only comparison with the Watergate incident is that as in that time, it could also contribute to their own destruction.
If This Insider Was a True Patriot….
Reading the Op-Ed release I and many immediately recognized that this so-called senior administration official was simply trying to keep the insanity at a minimum. There is no interest on his/her part or any of the insiders in exposing Trump for his total madness, lack of abilities, extremism or bad behavior. You see, to do that, they would have to acknowledge that the Republicans that support him are also bad and bring into question all of the decisions, bills, and actions that they have taken. Instead, this “insider” and the entire group is putting their Party agenda ahead of the good of the country and are just trying to keep a balance.
If you really read part of the Op-Ed you can see that there is an intent for exposure but with limitations: they want to continue to shove all of the conservative decisions forward, in spite of Trump and the Republicans that enable him:
“Don’t get me wrong. There are bright spots that the near-ceaseless negative coverage of the administration fails to capture: effective deregulation, historic tax reform, a more robust military and more.
But these successes have come despite — not because of — the president’s leadership style, which is impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective.
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.
‘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.”
What’s Worse? The Inmate Holding the Keys or the 25th Amendment?
There is absolutely no doubt that everyone associated with Trump, including the GOP, are living in fear. They fear his retribution, his vindictiveness, his rabid Twitter responses, the information that he may be blackmailing them with, and the very fact that many of the Republicans have dirty hands when it comes to Russian money and profiting. It is this fear that has made them completely spineless when it comes to calling out Trump and refusing to support his insanity. Instead, they are ramming Supreme Court Justices through, even when they denied President Obama his choice which was completely legal and expected.
We need to call the GOP out for the hypocrites that they are, because they know that the inmate has the keys and is running around wantonly destroying our country. Neither the Republicans nor these so-called “insiders” have the guts to stand up and put America before anything else. They are afraid of the 25th Amendment, whose design was in preparation for this very condition.
The Op-Ed demonstrated this and a weak attempt at guilting everyone else in the last paragraphs:
“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.”
Nixon was Trump-Lite
For those that lived through the Watergate era, you know that once everything was exposed on the Watergate situation, the American public slowly began to find out exactly what kind of person Nixon really was. Beyond just his lack of trust for anyone, he was very VERY paranoid.
We view the personality of Nixon in a Politico article:
“Work was Nixon’s medication. So was risk. The arduous quest for the presidency and the all-consuming exercise of its powers furnished relief. ‘He had no personal ability to get control,’ his television adviser, Roger Ailes, recalled. ‘He was to live in a drama — in a Western: Nixon against the world.’ Another aide, years later, came to the conclusion that Nixon sought crises like a gambler craves the game.
‘He needed to tempt self-destruction,” said Monica Crowley. “He courted controversy intentionally … the thrill was in those few breathtaking moments when the dice were in the air.’
‘Was Nixon paranoid? Yes,’ said aide Dwight Chapin. ‘But he also had the right to be.’”
That last comment “But he also had the right to be” is exactly where the problem exists.
Now compare this to the Op-Ed description of Trump:
“The result is a two-track presidency.
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.”
Wake up America, we are looking at a Banana Republic dictator-wannabe that has the temperament of a six year old, low IQ rhetoric, no experience or desire to know anything about national or international conditions and the ability to launch nuclear weapons at a whim!
If these insiders had any love of country they would be meeting with the GOP and assisting in the overturn of Trump and putting him in a mental institution where he belongs.
But here’s the problem, the Republicans are all so embedded in the deceit that none of them are willing to do the right thing for the country.
I covered this topic in my Sept. 2017 article: Surprise: The Entire GOP May Be Involved in RussiaGate in which I state:
“There is no denying that the Republican Party has sold their souls and the country for a bag of Rubles. They have devoted their lives to obstruction of anything that could benefit average Americans and instead promote the “idea” of less government intervention as the headline while instead lining their own pockets and those of their donors. Each and every decision that they have pushed has been to undermine and the prevalence of fake news being promoted on such channels as Fox not only continues the lies for their supporters but helps them to achieve their ultimate agenda:
Keep Americans poor, sick, uneducated and living in fear.
(they are easier to control that way”
This is the agenda that the Op-Ed is supporting and in NO way relates to the philosophy and ideology that the original Deep Throat of Nixon’s time attempted. That man, whom we later found out was Mark Felt, the Associate Director of the FBI and an FBI agent, recognized that someone had to do something to stop the hemorrhaging and he put the country first.
The current insiders are just playing trying to keep the fool in the White House from blowing the country up.
There is NO comparison and we should call these insiders AND the Republican Party out for their inaction. They should be ashamed, but they aren’t.
(S. Novi is a journalist that worked in the media and continues to seek out truth and integrity. A liberal and one that is suspicious of cults and empty promises. She is a member of Medium and a CityWatch contributor.)
-cw
