The NYT “Part of the Resistance ” piece is strategic conservative propaganda, not self-promotion.
This strikes me as an astute analysis of the letter (thinking about tone and intended audience). So much about this letter has been bothering me, and this is a chunk of it.
(Another chunk is that the letter author is describing a shadow/puppet government, which further abandons the in-built checks and balances in a dangerous undermining of our system, putting the underlying health of our country even more at risk than it already was.)
This is NOT the administration falling apart. It’s A+, live action storytelling with a controlled demolition, and it’s actually really dangerous. Behind the structure of the NYT piece lies the strategy for how the republican party plans to catch the pieces as they start falling.
Now is the time we need to get ahead of this. Instead of sitting back and watching the pieces fall, or flipping out and calling for the writer to resign, in the next few days we need to pre-empt this new narrative and have conversations with the significant voters in our lives now.