The Warm Blanket Of Anonymity
True servants of the people need not boast. This anonymous author does, so we know he/she is not.
thefederalist.com/2018/09/06/the…
True servants of the people need not boast. This anonymous author does, so we know he/she is not.
thefederalist.com/2018/09/06/the…
“This whole thing strikes me as an exercise in fart-sniffing that is patently ridiculous. The op-ed designs to set up a post-November “I AM IRON MAN” moment where the individual – whose importance w/in the gov’t is probably significant, but whose name ID is probably next to nil”
“(otherwise a public resignation would, you know, send a message) – unveils themselves before the eyes of the people and reaps the media tour benefits of the Sally Yates who have prepared the way.”
“It is not the attitude that responsible anti-populists should have. Anti-populists should want the voters to reap the benefits of their bad (from their perspective) decisions: oh, so you want a trade war? Let’s do that then, and you’ll pay the price.”
“You want a wall and a restrictive immigration policy? How do you like paying $10 for strawberries? The only way people learn in a representative democracy is if they get what they want and don’t like it, instead of entertaining hypotheticals all the way down.”
“But no, this NYT author wants to forstall all this – and wants to call attention to it, in a way certain to provoke the president. True servants of the people need not boast. This one does, so we know he is not.”
“An op-ed like this is not the confession of an honorable whistleblower. It does not tell us something new. Rather, it is designed to create a sense of paranoia and to make the White House less effective at advancing policy –“
“—and it plays directly into the hands of foreign governments at a time when many of our trade and military policies hang in the balance.”
“And when the author is inevitably revealed, The New York Times will have to answer for its decision – particularly if it turns out to be some rando at the State Department or USTR.”
