Dan Coats is a good pick for the driveling propaganda piece in the NYT [View all]
...that's who Lawrence O'Donnell just reasoned out as the author. Coats is a a self-righteous, conservative prick who can't get his full fundie-capitalist vibe going with the man-baby nutcase in the WH.
The author of this self-aggrandizing screed, and his cohorts in the WH are a step away from treason, however hilarious it is for Trump to be screaming it in all-caps on twitter. It's not doing democracy any favors for an unaccountable group of self-appointed patriots to be deciding what the product of this presidency will be on a daily or long-term basis.
Who's agenda are they actually serving? Is Coats anywhere close to a position in government that he can credibly serve as the arbiter of this president's decisions? It's clear this insider group the author of the propaganda piece cites is working to advantage their conservative wish list. That's not patriotism, it's rank partisanship which seeks to obscure WH malfeasance and criminal behavior. They're propping up Trump like a puppet in a bizarre type of piggyback onto Putin's coup.
As enticing a prospect as this may seem for those of us who wish Trump would just drop dead, this rebel clan's subversion portends to be a serious breach of the trust of the American people, not to mention a breach of the Constitution.
This is no way for the presidency to operate. If the government is being led by a madman, then it is the responsibility of those with evidence of this to publicly report their concerns to Congress. There is no provision or clause in the Constitution for babysitting, or co-opting his decision-making. If he's unfit, they need to disengage from his service and seek to remove him from office. Nothing short of that is acceptable.
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