Focused read in 2-3 minutes
"The Committee to Save
America (in full)
Here's one of the most
intriguing — and consequential — theories circulating inside the
White House:
The generals, the New
Yorkers and Republican congressional leaders see themselves as an
unofficial committee to protect Trump and the nation from disaster.
This loose alliance is
informal.
But as one top official
told us: "If you see a guy about to stab someone with a knife,
you don't need to huddle to decide to grab the knife."
The theory was described
to us in a series of private chats with high-ranking officials:
The generals — White
House Chief of Staff John Kelly, National Security Adviser H.R.
McMaster and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis — speak frequently, see
the world similarly and privately express a sense of duty to help
steer Trump. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joseph
Dunford, is an ally.
The New Yorkers, including
economic adviser Gary Cohn and Deputy National Security Adviser Dina
Powell (with 25 years of foreign-policy experience), have subsumed
some of their personal views to blunt Trump's worst ideas. This crowd
is highly skilled at communicating with the president (using visuals
and grand positioning) to refine or moderate "America first"
provocations. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is also very involved,
helping demand a process where POTUS has all the information to make
domestic and international economic decisions.
Republican congressional
leaders won't win any profiles in courage for standing up to Trump.
But almost all could move against the president if special counsel
Bob Mueller finds crimes, or the president succumbs to radical
instincts.
These officials see their
successes mostly in terms of bad decisions prevented, rather than
accomplishments chalked up:
They view their main
function as getting real facts to the president, and injecting their
belief in the importance of alliances and military relationships
around the world.
As an example, if Trump
had plunged ahead with his thirst for a trade war, the U.S. might not
have won China's backing in the U.N. vote last weekend for sanctions
against North Korea.
These officials pick their
battles, knowing that Trump is going to go ahead with some decisions
— like renouncing the Paris climate agreement — no matter what.
And much of what they do
is silent. AP reported that Mattis and Kelly, when he was still
Secretary of Homeland Security, "agreed in the earliest weeks of
Trump's presidency that one of them should remain in the United
States at all times to keep tabs on the orders rapidly emerging from
the White House."
These officials think
Trump deserves a functioning staff, West Wing and process. They say
they believe in him, but want the processes in place to give him
accurate information and the right options.
Outside critics contend
that these aides are rationalizing their role as enablers.
Be smart: One of the
biggest dangers to Trump's reign is that if Mueller acts or public
support plummets, he suddenly could be lonely in his own White House."
You can see the original story here
( Courtesy of AXIOS )
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~ Personal Commentary, read that as "food for thought" or a "brain teaser" for history "geeks":
“The Committee to Save
America” The Committee to Save America. The Committee to Save
America. I am no paranoid but my
brain tends to make connections between what I've learned in the past and
what I'm learning today and after reading the piece, I could not get
the phraseology out of my mind. Then
it came to me: “A state ruled by committee in favor of the Bourgeois”
or the “Makers” or the “Robber Barons” or, pick your poison, what
ever word you'd like to use to define vulture capitalists, like Trump, who will
never cease quests to fill their coffers (one very good reason for
a Republic that believes in representative government and regulated
capitalism). I can't re-read all of that Marxist gobbledygook I was once assigned to read in a history class, but
heads up, consciously or unconsciously, it seems language may be propagandizing us, i.e. making
#NotNormal normal.
( if you are really curious you can find the
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