government. an unelected bureaucracy, hired by the president, which is nonetheless working to run the executive branch in his place. what the writer euphemistically calls the work of a steady state. adding that they, whoever they are, will do whatever we can to steer the administration in the right direction until one way or another it s over. of course, steering the administration in the right direction didn t involve stopping the separation and caging of immigrant children or using the constitutional option of removing trump by the 25th amendment. no, the right direction is apparently the one where the resistor gets to preserve the things they like. you know, tax cuts for the rich and deregulation of big business. yet the writer is basically every republican in washington. not sure that s what the resistance means. back with me, tara, dean, moveon.org and joining the
these people are trying to cast themselves as rebels and the resistance, trying to look good in history. they aren t going to do anything to donald trump. they said they thought about the sort of constitutional baker act that they thought about 25th amendmenting him but they said, let s not have a constitutional crisis. we want our tax cuts. isn t it true that whoever this is, they re not going to do anything about donald trump? they re not. and, joy, this won t surprise you, having been a political operative most of my life. i capital tell you how many times i ve tried to get anonymous op-eds printed in newspapers. i can t tell you how many times. how many times i ve tried to get them printed with real names on this em. when i first saw this, nothing surprised me in the memo the op-ed. most of this has been reported and the dysfunction has been reported. but i thought, this is absolutely politically brilliant. we have now changed the conversation from judge kavanaugh to an op-ed.
they re not accountable. they re not doing us a service by actively promoting 90% of the crazy stuff that s coming out of this white house. and then saying, don t worry, we re preventing the other 10%. this person clearly wants to be seen as a hero and be fitted for their superman cape but who elected this person to run the government? by the way, they re like, but we re making sure the rich people get their tax cuts, don t worry. yeah, yeah, which is kind of like yeah, it s it tells you exactly where they really are in all of this. but, look, it s self-serving. they re not a hero at all. what they re trying to do is rewrite history so it s favorable to them. and, i mean, these are the same person, and he talks about other people, the person talks about other people being part of the quote/unquote resistance that stood by the president, who put babies in cages, who refused to denounce neo-nazis marching on charlottesville a year ago, who
where he s walking around with a bat. the new york times vet it, they find out who the person is, it s true, you print it. that s fine. things fall where they go. but the idea that this person is in the resistance is a joke. we are the resistance. if euro posed to 10% of donald trump s plans, you re not doing any resistance. you re putting up the window shades to make things look good so it s palatable. if you re in the resistance you oat pose everything donald trump has done. putting corporations over people, not denouncing nazis and the list goes on and on and on. to me, my greatest pushback on this article is the idea they re the resistance. no, we re the resistance. we oppose everything this man has done. to the point, the american people now do not know who is essentially, effectively, governing the country, but they do. now we have a couple editors
all over washington. and with senior trump official. the anonymous new york times op-ed claiming to be part of the resistance inside if white house. which insider believes the route of the problem is the president s problem and searched the president s authoriwhenever see fit. so far come forward in fashion. we need to write anonymous editorial. an extraordinary leadership to this country. should not be working for this administration. anymore do the honorable thing. the question directly. he didn t want to answer the