a******5
发帖数: 2062 | 1 今天舔舔们集体忽视这篇文章，我来吧。看看这篇文章，再对照一下 Bob Woodward 的
书，就应当了解我们的国家是让个什么样的疯子在领导，你们应该好好想一想，还要舔
多久？
The Times today is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed
essay. We have done so at the request of the author, a senior official in
the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would
be jeopardized by its disclosure. We believe publishing this essay
anonymously is the only way to deliver an important perspective to our
readers. We invite you to submit a question about the essay or our vetting
process here.
=================================
President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a
modern American leader.
It's not just that the special counsel looms large. Or that the country is
bitterly divided over Mr. Trump's leadership. Or even that his party might
well lose the House to an opposition hellbent on his downfall.
The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior
officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to
frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.
I would know. I am one of them.
To be clear, ours is not the popular "resistance" of the left. We want the
administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already
made America safer and more prosperous.
But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president
continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our
republic.
That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve
our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump's more misguided
impulses until he is out of office.
The root of the problem is the president's amorality. Anyone who works with
him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide
his decision making.
Although he was elected as a Republican, the president shows little affinity
for ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets and
free people. At best, he has invoked these ideals in scripted settings. At
worst, he has attacked them outright.
In addition to his mass-marketing of the notion that the press is the "enemy
of the people," President Trump's impulses are generally anti-trade and
anti-democratic.
Don't get me wrong. There are bright spots that the near-ceaseless negative
coverage of the administration fails to capture: effective deregulation,
historic tax reform, a more robust military and more.
But these successes have come despite — not because of — the president's
leadership style, which is impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective.
From the White House to executive branch departments and agencies, senior
officials will privately admit their daily disbelief at the commander in
chief's comments and actions. Most are working to insulate their operations
from his whims.
Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails, he engages in repetitive
rants, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and
occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back.
"There is literally no telling whether he might change his mind from one
minute to the next," a top official complained to me recently, exasperated
by an Oval Office meeting at which the president flip-flopped on a major
policy decision he'd made only a week earlier.
The erratic behavior would be more concerning if it weren't for unsung
heroes in and around the White House. Some of his aides have been cast as
villains by the media. But in private, they have gone to great lengths to
keep bad decisions contained to the West Wing, though they are clearly not
always successful.
It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that
there are adults in the room. We fully recognize what is happening. And we
are trying to do what's right even when Donald Trump won't.
The result is a two-track presidency.
Take foreign policy: In public and in private, President Trump shows a
preference for autocrats and dictators, such as President Vladimir Putin of
Russia and North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, and displays little genuine
appreciation for the ties that bind us to allied, like-minded nations.
Astute observers have noted, though, that the rest of the administration is
operating on another track, one where countries like Russia are called out
for meddling and punished accordingly, and where allies around the world are
engaged as peers rather than ridiculed as rivals.
On Russia, for instance, the president was reluctant to expel so many of Mr.
Putin's spies as punishment for the poisoning of a former Russian spy in
Britain. He complained for weeks about senior staff members letting him get
boxed into further confrontation with Russia, and he expressed frustration
that the United States continued to impose sanctions on the country for its
malign behavior. But his national security team knew better — such actions
had to be taken, to hold Moscow accountable.
This isn't the work of the so-called deep state. It's the work of the steady
state.
Given the instability many witnessed, there were early whispers within the
cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex process
for removing the president. But no one wanted to precipitate a
constitutional crisis. So we will do what we can to steer the administration
in the right direction until — one way or another — it's over.
The bigger concern is not what Mr. Trump has done to the presidency but
rather what we as a nation have allowed him to do to us. We have sunk low
with him and allowed our discourse to be stripped of civility.
Senator John McCain put it best in his farewell letter. All Americans should
heed his words and break free of the tribalism trap, with the high aim of
uniting through our shared values and love of this great nation.
We may no longer have Senator McCain. But we will always have his example —
a lodestar for restoring honor to public life and our national dialogue. Mr
. Trump may fear such honorable men, but we should revere them.
There is a quiet resistance within the administration of people choosing to
put country first. But the real difference will be made by everyday citizens
rising above politics, reaching across the aisle and resolving to shed the
labels in favor of a single one: Americans.
The writer is a senior official in the Trump administration. | a**e
发帖数: 8800 | 2 一个推崇迈砍的
当然是共和党内部反对传铺的
这些人哪里有一点credit
：今天舔舔们集体忽视这篇文章，我来吧。看看这篇文章，再对照一下 Bob Woodward
的书，就应当了解我们的国家是让个什么样的疯子在领导，你们应该好好想一想，还要
舔多久？
： | t******g
发帖数: 1667 | 3 又拿Opinion证明Opinion，只要是反川的裹脚布，总要拿来舔一舔，你要好好想想，还
要舔多久？ | t******g
发帖数: 1667 | | a****a
发帖数: 3905 | 5 NYT的editor蠢到家了。这个人要是不存在，坐实自己是fake news。这个人要是存在，
坐实确实有deep state在背后捣鬼。 | y****i
发帖数: 12114 | 6 某大国政党多年前都不接受匿名举报了……
【在 t******g 的大作中提到】
: 等等，又是一个匿名人士的文章？？？？？
| N*******M
发帖数: 3963 | 7 当你的员工，你的伴侣，你的孩子，你的好朋友这样对你做，你会有什么反映？
的
【在 a******5 的大作中提到】
: 今天舔舔们集体忽视这篇文章，我来吧。看看这篇文章，再对照一下 Bob Woodward 的
: 书，就应当了解我们的国家是让个什么样的疯子在领导，你们应该好好想一想，还要舔
: 多久？
: The Times today is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed
: essay. We have done so at the request of the author, a senior official in
: the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would
: be jeopardized by its disclosure. We believe publishing this essay
: anonymously is the only way to deliver an important perspective to our
: readers. We invite you to submit a question about the essay or our vetting
: process here.
| r*********t
发帖数: 4911 | 8 川普说fake news是人民公敌，但是作者说 川普说 the press 是人民公敌。
美国的保守派要的free market是公平的free market--而这正是老川所要的。而作者却
说老川不想要free market.
作者对川普诸多不满，却不请辞。如果川普真如作者所说，那么作者一方面“助纣为虐
”，另一方面骂川普作孽，岂不可笑---这个观点在nt的commentary里面被反川网友们
不断提起。
当然，作者批评川普独断专权或许是真的。老川或许对内脾气的确不好。 | A****7
发帖数: 902 | 9 当你的伴侣刚生完孩子，你跑出去偷偷找 porn star 打炮，你的伴侣会有什么反映？
你的孩子会有什么反映？
【在 N*******M 的大作中提到】
: 当你的员工，你的伴侣，你的孩子，你的好朋友这样对你做，你会有什么反映？
:
: 的
| N*******M
发帖数: 3963 | 10 你没有经历过文革吧？如果你没有背叛过你的父母那算你走运
【在 A****7 的大作中提到】
: 当你的伴侣刚生完孩子，你跑出去偷偷找 porn star 打炮，你的伴侣会有什么反映？
: 你的孩子会有什么反映？
| | | V********d
发帖数: 1 | 11 看看,这就是川粉了.我在另一个帖子里面就说,没用的.这些都没用.
川普早就预见到这种情况,并且早就说过一句掷地有声的话:
"You know what else they say about my people? The polls,they say I have the
most loyal people. Did you ever see that? Where I could stand in the middle
of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It'
s like incredible."
现在回想起来他说的这句话,其内在的思维逻辑,"my people","I have the most loyal
people",是不是有点毛骨悚然的感觉.就连他自己也觉得有点不可思议.
可能美国本地人对这种事很陌生,没见过什么世面,但是中国来的移民,尤其是70岁左右
的人,应该对这种事再熟悉不过.
一个民选总统,根据什么把国家公民称为"my people",凭什么要求人民对他"loyal"?这
哪里是一个民主国家该有的逻辑?
权利法案的核心价值:联邦政府才是美国人民权利与自由的最大威胁.
现在反过来了,人民要忠于川普忠于政府了.不忠于川普的就是坏人,就是fake news,就
是人民公敌.
"定于一尊"这种事,可能就是川普和川粉们梦寐以求的吧... | A****7
发帖数: 902 | 12 你经历过文革？你背叛你的父母，是你不走运，还是你的父母不走运？
【在 N*******M 的大作中提到】
: 你没有经历过文革吧？如果你没有背叛过你的父母那算你走运
| r*********t
发帖数: 4911 | 13 "the polls, they say I have the most loyal people"---poll说川普有忠实的拥护
者，你却说川普要求大家loyal.至于他说my people, 这话有什么问题？他指的是川普
支持者们是my people，又不是说所有美国公民都是他的my people.而川普支持者们并
没有反对他这么叫，你一个川黑在这里反对川普如何称呼他的支持者，在我看来，存粹
没事找事。
Where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I
wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It's like incredible.---这话是川普大嘴巴，他
要这么做，我必定不再支持。而且我想也会有很多其他人，不再支持他（当然，继续支
持他的人或许也存在）
the
middle
It'
loyal
【在 V********d 的大作中提到】
: 看看,这就是川粉了.我在另一个帖子里面就说,没用的.这些都没用.
: 川普早就预见到这种情况,并且早就说过一句掷地有声的话:
: "You know what else they say about my people? The polls,they say I have the
: most loyal people. Did you ever see that? Where I could stand in the middle
: of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It'
: s like incredible."
: 现在回想起来他说的这句话,其内在的思维逻辑,"my people","I have the most loyal
: people",是不是有点毛骨悚然的感觉.就连他自己也觉得有点不可思议.
: 可能美国本地人对这种事很陌生,没见过什么世面,但是中国来的移民,尤其是70岁左右
: 的人,应该对这种事再熟悉不过.
| V********d
发帖数: 1 | 14 如果他在第五大道开抢打人,你就不是他的people了?
可是经济现在一片大好啊,失业人数"史上最低",就业人数"史上最高",美国正在再次伟
大,川总已经成为美国史上最伟大总统,你却因为川总随便在第五大道上开了几枪就不再
拥护他了,那你不能说自己是川粉.
你是伪川粉.大家应该把你踢出川总的队伍,以保持川粉队伍的纯洁性.
【在 r*********t 的大作中提到】
: "the polls, they say I have the most loyal people"---poll说川普有忠实的拥护
: 者，你却说川普要求大家loyal.至于他说my people, 这话有什么问题？他指的是川普
: 支持者们是my people，又不是说所有美国公民都是他的my people.而川普支持者们并
: 没有反对他这么叫，你一个川黑在这里反对川普如何称呼他的支持者，在我看来，存粹
: 没事找事。
: Where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I
: wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It's like incredible.---这话是川普大嘴巴，他
: 要这么做，我必定不再支持。而且我想也会有很多其他人，不再支持他（当然，继续支
: 持他的人或许也存在）
:
| L*********4
发帖数: 883 | 15 说了半天，一点实证都没有，根本就是扯淡。
川普喜欢普京有错么？普京本来就是一个很厉害的领袖，只有老共和党一脑袋冷战思维
才会不爽。
川普本来就是中左，支持重商主义加关税的，你一个老共和党不爽就正好得其所哉。 |
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