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The New York Times published an anonymous opinion piece from a "Senior White House Official" that claims that they do whatever they can to reign in Trump's destructive impulses and steer the country on the right course.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html

Honestly, this pisses me off, even as someone who is no fan of Trump. This is every bit as tacitly dishonest and flagrantly undemocratic as anything Trump's ever done. Yes, he's an idiot. Yes, there's no way he has the competency to actually be president and he could very well cause untold damage above and beyond what he's already doing in spite of his aides' apparent "resistance." But undermining him is even worse, because it means America is effectively being run by an unelected cabal with no oversight and no transparency.

If senior officials have come to the conclusion that Trump is incapable of effectively discharging his duties as president due to incompetence, they have a means to rectify that: it's called the 25th amendment. If they are unwilling to resort to that, then they should either resign or faithfully carry out the duties they have been assigned. Pretending that all is well while quietly running a puppet show behind the scenes is the stuff of banana republics and autocracies trying to keep up a thin veneer of legitimacy.
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