{"id":32597,"date":"2018-09-06T09:55:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T15:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?p=32597"},"modified":"2024-11-18T11:13:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T18:13:44","slug":"anonymous-op-ed-describes-white-house-coup-by-charade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2018\/09\/anonymous-op-ed-describes-white-house-coup-by-charade\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous Op Ed Describes White House Coup by Charade"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_31648\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31648\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2017\/12\/white-house-get-wrong-miss-something\/33573172373_50f95c47da_z\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31648\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31648\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/254\/2017\/12\/33573172373_50f95c47da_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source: Flickr Creative Commons by The White House https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/whitehouse\/. Public Domain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>An anonymous I\u2019m-on-the-inside-subverting-the-President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-nytimes\/senior-trump-official-describes-resistance-inside-administration-nyt-op-ed-idUSKCN1LL32W\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">New York Times piece<\/a> made me gag.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times recently published an anonymous Op Ed piece that it says was written by someone high in the Trump administration and inside the White House. The author of the piece details why he and other staffers are using their positions to subvert the president and essentially govern the country themselves through lies and charade.<\/p>\n<p>This person intones that he or she feels that some of the things that President Trump has done are great \u201cconservative\u201dtriumphs. He likes the big tax cuts but he is against \u2014 and in active inside opposition to \u2014 most of the rest of the president\u2019s initiatives.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So, instead of doing whatever job he was given, he is actively subverting his boss. The anonymous writer intones that he wants the American people to know that \u201cthere are adults in the room\u201d to protect them from their duly elected president.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Uh-huh. Sure.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The excuse for this is that President Trump is bad. Somehow or other, Mr Anonymous thinks President Trump\u2019s badness justifies an inside-the-White House coup of governance.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>President Trump was elected.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The opposition position that Mr Anonymous is taking onto himself should be coming from Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Simcha Fisher wrote an interesting piece on this issue. To read it, go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simchafisher.com\/2018\/09\/06\/youre-on-the-inside-do-your-job-or-gtfo\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An anonymous I\u2019m-on-the-inside-subverting-the-President New York Times piece made me gag. The New York Times recently published an anonymous Op Ed piece that it says was written by someone high in the Trump administration and inside the White House. The author of the piece details why he and other staffers are using their positions to subvert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1155,"featured_media":31648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7893,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Anonymous Op Ed Describes White House Coup by Charade<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An anonymous I\u2019m-on-the-inside-subverting-the-President New York Times piece made me gag. 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