Secret cabal in the White House seeks to thwart Donald Trump

  The New York Times printed an anonymous op-ed piece today from a person who claims to be in the Trump administration and who claims there are people in the White House actively working to thwart parts of the President’s agenda. 

  Donald Trump is taking this news as fact and so even though it is from an anonymous source we will treat it as fact here are well. Here is more:

The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

I would know. I am one of them.

  My first reaction was that the New York Times was trying to make a mountain out of a molehill–so the President has not simply aligned himself with yes men, there is nothing wrong with a little debate from within an administration on the issues. But this person makes it look like more than that because he or she claims they are working behind the scenes to stop him. 

  Here is more still:

To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous.

But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.

That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office.

The root of the problem is the president’s amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making.

Although he was elected as a Republican, the president shows little affinity for ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets and free people. At best, he has invoked these ideals in scripted settings. At worst, he has attacked them outright.

In addition to his mass-marketing of the notion that the press is the “enemy of the people,” President Trump’s impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic.

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.

  There is more but I think you get the gist of it. These people are not part of the so-called leftist Resistance movement but rather appear to hold onto more traditional conservative values, values they do not believe the President consistently holds. In other words they are Washington insiders who are upset when the status quo is shaken up and you can tell this by what they consider to be victories (while failing to give the President credit for the victories) and what they consider to be “misguided impulses.”

  Here is what really bothers me about this story, again assuming it is true; why did the author feel the need to say anything? I cannot figure that out, wouldn’t it be better for this cabal if it was kept quiet? What is gained by telling the public (and the President) that this is going on, other than feeding the egos of the people involved? If it was simply ego it could lead to their fall.

malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium