The unfolding Trumpian #MeToo fears... are Les Moonves with a nuclear trigger.
Removing Les Moonves should be no different than removing Trump especially since he’s turned the nation into the target of bad behavior.
Trump’s presidency* is the ultimate false alpha, where pretending to be strong is really a false positive. The display of aggression sans actual violence is the real Beta move.
It’s no different for Les Moonves, so what will Trump want as the compensation to make him go away?
He won’t resign, since he’s a coward, and he will try to take take it with him, since he really doesn’t care about his children either. What does the Trump brand now stand for, especially since his base could hardly afford to stay in his hotels or join his golf clubs. Only the globally ignorant will buy his brand.
Trump could in his delusions devolve into thinking of his only place in history as infamous.
Aside from the kitschy bombast, Trump’s usefulness has been covering for a malevolent GOP, doing what it’s always done to consolidate power.
The wages of GOP sin are two more years of a crippled POTUS*, blustering about starting a war somewhere, wanting to kill everyone in sight.
GOPutin’s puppet, now more cornered than ever, is President #MeToo 45*, abusing power everywhere...
CBS said the network would donate $20 million to “organizations that support the #MeToo movement and equality for women in the workplace.”
The author of the anonymous op-ed is hoping to vindicate the reputation of like-minded senior Trump staffers. See, we only look complicit! Actually, we’re the real heroes of the story.
But what the author has just done is throw the government of the United States into even more dangerous turmoil. He or she has enflamed the paranoia of the president and empowered the president’s willfulness.
What happens the next time a staffer seeks to dissuade the president from, say, purging the Justice Department to shut down Robert Mueller’s investigation? The author of the Times op-ed has explicitly told the president that those who offer such advice do not have the president’s best interests at heart and are, in fact, actively subverting his best interests as he understands them on behalf of ideas of their own.
He’ll grow more defiant, more reckless, more anti-constitutional, and more dangerous.