Now a string of resignations: yesterday its was lower level aids Grisham, Niceta, Mulveney, Matthews and one cabinet appointee, Elaine Chow; today it was Education Secretary DeVos.
The rush for the exit is to say the least unusual, but predicated one imagines by Trump's inciting a riot at the Capitol yesterday.
Was it a sudden realization, as Marine General John Kelly, ex- Chief of Staff put it today, that Trumps was a deeply flawed individual? Was it that they thought that he'd just gone too far?
Perhaps not; more likely it was self-preservation of the vestiges of their reputations and the fear that unless they distanced themselves with all due haste they would be forever tied to Trump's appalling legacy. And for the cabinet level resignees, they avoided the possibility of having to discuss his removal under the 25th amendment. At least that way they wouldn't have to pick a side, democracy or Trump's base.
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