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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDo the people working for Trump know he is going to destroy their lives?
Trump will sacrifice anyone in order to protect himself. We all know that. It is amazing watching people destroy themselves for Trump and they have seen over and over again what Trump does to the closest people to him. Don't they understand they could be next?
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Do the people working for Trump know he is going to destroy their lives? (Original Post)
shockey80
Oct 2019
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,748 posts)1. "Trump eats your soul in small bites."
Whatever you might think of James Comey otherwise, he described perfectly what Trump does to people.
Accomplished people lacking inner strength cant resist the compromises necessary to survive Mr. Trump and that adds up to something they will never recover from. It takes character like Mr. Mattiss to avoid the damage, because Mr. Trump eats your soul in small bites.
It starts with your sitting silent while he lies, both in public and private, making you complicit by your silence. In meetings with him, his assertions about what everyone thinks and what is obviously true wash over you, unchallenged, as they did at our private dinner on Jan. 27, 2017, because hes the president and he rarely stops talking. As a result, Mr. Trump pulls all of those present into a silent circle of assent.
Speaking rapid-fire with no spot for others to jump into the conversation, Mr. Trump makes everyone a co-conspirator to his preferred set of facts, or delusions. I have felt it this president building with his words a web of alternative reality and busily wrapping it around all of us in the room. ...
You feel this happening. It bothers you, at least to some extent. But his outrageous conduct convinces you that you simply must stay, to preserve and protect the people and institutions and values you hold dear. Along with Republican members of Congress, you tell yourself you are too important for this nation to lose, especially now...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/opinion/william-barr-testimony.html
It starts with your sitting silent while he lies, both in public and private, making you complicit by your silence. In meetings with him, his assertions about what everyone thinks and what is obviously true wash over you, unchallenged, as they did at our private dinner on Jan. 27, 2017, because hes the president and he rarely stops talking. As a result, Mr. Trump pulls all of those present into a silent circle of assent.
Speaking rapid-fire with no spot for others to jump into the conversation, Mr. Trump makes everyone a co-conspirator to his preferred set of facts, or delusions. I have felt it this president building with his words a web of alternative reality and busily wrapping it around all of us in the room. ...
You feel this happening. It bothers you, at least to some extent. But his outrageous conduct convinces you that you simply must stay, to preserve and protect the people and institutions and values you hold dear. Along with Republican members of Congress, you tell yourself you are too important for this nation to lose, especially now...
In other words, they know Trump is a dumpster fire but they think they can be the guard rail and save America. But either they become co-opted and do Trump's bidding in order to keep their jobs and (they think) save America (which they can't), or they break away from him and get fired. The result, either way, is that the stank of Trump will stick to them and their reputation is ruined forever.
spanone
(135,846 posts)2. they've seen it happen time and again to their cohorts...you'd think so
leftyladyfrommo
(18,869 posts)3. I would just stop showing up for work.
Singing on a street corner would be better.