So somebody in the upper echelon of Trump’s administration wants to out the incompetence, immorality and insanity of this president. And we’re supposed to think it’s treason or a “soft coup” say the true Trump believers.
We can even argue whether or not this anonymous editorials is a true patriot or gutless wonder (I suspect its somewhere in between). And we can play the guessing game — Is it Mike “Lodestar” Pence (who is seizing a Machiavellian moment), Jarod “I’m taking my jackass father-in-law down with me” Kushner, Kelly Ann “Please Don’t Make Me Sleep on the Sofa” Fitzpatrick, or Nikki “Heeere I Come to Save the Day” Haley.
It doesn’t matter. Because here’s where the poetic irony comes in — especially if this helps push Donald Trump from his phony throne:
The guy campaigned by dividing the national population by ethnicity, gender, religion, race and region. He found several scapegoats for grievances that weren’t even entirely all that. He got into office with some outside, illegal help.
Upon taking office — up until now — he threatens and attacks his predecessor and threatens his former opponent (who conceded) with imprisonment. He expects everybody in government to be loyal to him personally, and work for him personally — instead of for the people and the government they represent. He works to oust anybody in the justice department who investigates a real crime in lieu of that loyalty.
And now, in that very same administration, unnamed senior advisors are, not secretly — but at least anonymously — plot his political demise by outing (or at least confirming) that all the insane stuff isn’t just true — it’s worse than we thought.
So how delicious is this? As I said in my header: Live by the banana republic, die by the banana republic. Couldn’t happen to a more obvious would-be despot.