SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
All of Washington is abuzz after The New York Times released an anonymous op-ed by a “senior†official in the Trump administration. Aside from seeking to undermine the result of an election, the anonymous author is arguing for a bad has-been policy agenda and approach to politics.
The American people can roll their eyes and move on from the controversy. This is just another Republican who hasn’t learned anything from the Bush years, and thinks we are back in the year 2000. The answer: vote for Republicans—like the president—who have learned something from the last two decades.
The anonymous author begins: “I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.†The author then goes on in MSNBC-speak until the second half of the op-ed, when he or she finally gets to areas of substantive disagreement with Trump.
The anonymous official says Trump is amoral and is not guided by “principles.†Wrong. Like most Americans, Trump is an ardent nationalist. Watch old interviews of the guy and it is clear that he’s been guided by America First his entire adult life. Yes, he’s pragmatic. But he’s not a flip-flopper of Mitt Romney proportions. Really, the anonymous author probably just doesn’t like that Trump thinks outside of the Washington, D.C., box (which is what got him elected).
http://thefederalist.com/2018/09/10/anonymous-argued-for-stupid-has-been-policies-in-the-new-york-times-op-ed/
