The government is full of people who think they know better. Better than the founders (Electoral college). Better than the American people (who elected Donald Trump). They are so smart they will do anything to be right, including undermining the President.
In Nikki Haley’s new book, she recounts at least one encounter that explains the departures of any number of appointees to the White House.
Haley recounts a closed-door encounter with then-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson: “Kelly and Tillerson confided in me that when they resisted the president, they weren’t being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country … Tillerson went on to tell me the reason he resisted the president’s decisions was because, if he didn’t, people would die. This was how high the stakes were, he and Kelly told me. We are doing the best we can do to save the country, they said. We need you to work with us and help us do it. This went on for over an hour.”
And, now we know why they are gone.
Haley’s response was to go tell the president this then “quit if you don’t like what he’s doing.” That appears to be how things ended for them. Brought in or recommended by someone who wanted to try and put a leash on your president. It didn’t work. They are gone. Quit or fired.
It gives you a sense of how deep the swap goes and how badly it wants to get Trump out of office. And, how strong the guy is when it comes to this sort of thing.
He’s dealing with that every day. Knowing most of the people around him probably want him gone. Pushing his agenda, your agenda, forward. And making a lot of progress despite the institutional barriers at every turn.
The ultimate outsider.
Keep that in mind. The Left likes to paint their opponents as insiders, including Trump advocates.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
