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August 16, 2017 at 9:04 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Members of the presidents staff, stunned and disheartened, said they never expected to hear such a voluble articulation of opinions that the president had long expressed in private, the New York Times reports.
Jonathan Chait: This raises the question once again of why they are working for Trump at all. A legitimate public rationale can be made for serving the administration in certain roles. The federal government plays a vital role in domestic and global security, Trump is a dangerous and erratic figure, and somebody needs to try to steer him away from decisions that would provoke unalterable tragedy. That justification covers serving Trump as a foreign-policy adviser, or as homeland security and disaster-response officials.
Preventing Trump from doing something damaging is a legitimate and even noble calling. But that admirable motivation can easily mutate into rationalization. Are Trump aides really working to protect the country from him? Or are they working to keep the country from seeing his real nature?
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https://politicalwire.com/2017/08/16/white-house-staff-upset-trumps-beliefs-now-public/
Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)Johonny
(20,851 posts)they were comfortable with a little soft bigotry, but being a down right neo-NAZI was a step down the path too far for most GOPers.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)tblue37
(65,386 posts)said their job was to inject Trump into America.
That is the job they are doing, no matter how they rationalize it.
Girard442
(6,075 posts)Not in spite of them.
Golden Raisin
(4,609 posts)admitted Pussy-Grabber. So screw them and their suddenly being "upset".
Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)Right. Really says it all about the WH staff.
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)Or for republicans, for that matter.
There are a few - very few- well known republicans who are truly outraged by what is happening...BUT
They're still republicans.
They're lying to themselves and others if they think racism hasn't been used by the GOP to get votes for decades.
But they were obviously OK with the polished dog whistles of the likes of Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, George HW Bush, Reagan, etc..
So, really, they are like the current WH staff - obvious and open racism bad....well versed dog whistles politely spoken, OK.
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)hatrack
(59,587 posts)Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)because if people find out that they actively supported someone as despicable as Trump after knowing how bad he is, they will find that they themselves are now viewed as suspect