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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMarc Ambinder: Trump's staff don't like him.
https://medium.com/@marcambinder/trumps-staff-don-t-like-him-84ddbb34e56f#.9fhc8q7d4Hmm. DU's software breaks that link at the Twitter handle, so here's a link to the tweet with the Medium link above:
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Trumps staff dont like him.
And this, I think, is a fundamental and under-appreciated eddy current that we need to follow.
1. Obamas staff didnt want to get on his bad side, but all respected him, almost to a fault. They trusted his judgment. They liked him.
2. Trumps staff (from my conversations with a few) dont like him. Many dont seem to respect him, though some do. Some feel bad for him.
3. The lack of respect shown to @realDonaldTrump by his senior staff at times (through leaks, etc.) is real, damaging, and inevitable.
4. Many senior Trump folks want him to succeed, but fear he doesnt have the capacity to. Fairly unprecedented.
5. BTW: George W. Bushs staff loved him, respected him, and mostly trusted his instincts, too.
6. I would still encourage anyone who wants to serve in government to serve. Good people need to serve, because government serves billions.
7. I cant pretend I know how to avoid the inevitable (and often immediate) dissonance one would face in working for this administration, but..
8. Even I would try to find a way to serve, if it ever came to it. (It wont). I honor those who try their best.
9. These Gordian knots arent meant to be easily untangled. But I will never shame someone who goes to work for the government, ever.
And this, I think, is a fundamental and under-appreciated eddy current that we need to follow.
1. Obamas staff didnt want to get on his bad side, but all respected him, almost to a fault. They trusted his judgment. They liked him.
2. Trumps staff (from my conversations with a few) dont like him. Many dont seem to respect him, though some do. Some feel bad for him.
3. The lack of respect shown to @realDonaldTrump by his senior staff at times (through leaks, etc.) is real, damaging, and inevitable.
4. Many senior Trump folks want him to succeed, but fear he doesnt have the capacity to. Fairly unprecedented.
5. BTW: George W. Bushs staff loved him, respected him, and mostly trusted his instincts, too.
6. I would still encourage anyone who wants to serve in government to serve. Good people need to serve, because government serves billions.
7. I cant pretend I know how to avoid the inevitable (and often immediate) dissonance one would face in working for this administration, but..
8. Even I would try to find a way to serve, if it ever came to it. (It wont). I honor those who try their best.
9. These Gordian knots arent meant to be easily untangled. But I will never shame someone who goes to work for the government, ever.
Ambinder posted this first as a series of tweets beginning with this one:
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Marc Ambinder: Trump's staff don't like him. (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Feb 2017
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LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)1. Bullshit. They're all in CYA mode right now. TETHER THAT CHICKEN PEOPLE. nt
elleng
(130,701 posts)2. Thought so,
and kinda been waiting for White House staff to start to leave, but they may be too devoted to the place and the office to do so.
Phoenix61
(16,992 posts)3. Those are the folks you want to have on your side
All those little things that have to be done for an office to run smoothly and for tasks to get done. Amazing how bad an admin person can jam up the cogs.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,811 posts)4. I'm both saddened and disgusted that anyone
would work for a man they don't like.
It's not as though these are low-level minimum wage workers who have nowhere else to go.