Brendan Buxton
Sep 6, 2018 · 1 min read

I’m sorry but I have no time for this self-serving, quasi-heroic posturing for a Republican audience.

The writer tells us (though we’re well aware already) that there’s an narcissistic imbecile in the Oval Office and that this ignoramus has demagogic intentions, yet the “unsung heroes…diligently working…to frustrate…his worst intentions” still “want the administration to succeed”! What on earth is there to praise in this stance? The best thing they can do “to preserve our democratic institutions” is to work towards Trump being removed from office, not to bolster his growing autocracy from within and definitely NOT to maintain Republicans in control no matter what the cost may be to those very democratic institutions these “unsung heroes” supposedly care so deeply about.

However, this last point is actually the real aim of the writer. Republicans in Washington want power, no matter what. The message underlying this faux radical article is that whoever wrote it, along with those other “unsung heroes”, is desperately attempting to maintain political business as usual for the Republicans while being sorely tested by an increasingly paranoid and unbalanced president. It is the maintenance of power by their own party that these “heroes” want. They do not have the best interests of their country at heart. With mid-term elections approaching, this apparently patriotic cry from the heart is really only self-serving messaging intended for the Koch Brothers and their friends.

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