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kpete

(71,901 posts)
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 06:35 AM Sep 2018

Frank Rich: "Mr. Anonymous" is nothing more than a Vichy collaborator.

If we are to believe Mr. (or Ms.) Anonymous, he and his fellow in-house Trump resisters are the “adults in the room” and “unsung heroes” who are “working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.” This is no doubt how Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, and all the rest of the president’s Vichy Republicans see themselves too.


[W]hich of Trump’s “worst inclinations” have any of them frustrated? The ripping apart of immigrant families? The nonstop race-baiting and the condoning of white neo-Nazis at Charlottesville? The assaults on Americans’ health care, on LGBT rights, on the press? The nonstop ethical abuses and kleptomania of the Trump family and Cabinet members? The wholesale effort to sabotage the rule of law?


Mr. Anonymous is a coward so lacking a moral compass that he doesn’t realize that the best way to “preserve our democratic institutions” (as he claims to be doing) is to identify himself, resign, and report any criminal activity he has witnessed by the president or his colleagues.


It reads like a defense document that’s being put on the record should that rainy day come when Mr. Anonymous, no longer anonymous, will have to defend his own actions in a Nuremberg-like legal reckoning once the king of Crazytown has been carted off. As any student of Vichy knows, there was no shortage of French collaborators who falsely claimed to have been secretly part of the underground Resistance to the Pétain regime once the war was over.



the rest:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/09/frank-rich-anonymous-trump-official-collaborator-not-resister.html
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/6/1793902/-Frank-Rich-Mr-Anonymous-is-nothing-more-than-a-Vichy-collaborator







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Frank Rich: "Mr. Anonymous" is nothing more than a Vichy collaborator. (Original Post) kpete Sep 2018 OP
#VichyRepublicans suck Achilleaze Sep 2018 #1
Could that have been written Scarsdale Sep 2018 #2
Still think it's Kelly... TommyCelt Sep 2018 #17
Is the whole fucking narrative real? watoos Sep 2018 #3
Agreed hueymahl Sep 2018 #7
WAPO's Woodward came out with his grand expose book so the NYT... brush Sep 2018 #14
Nobody is distracted from Kavanaugh. (nt) apnu Sep 2018 #18
THANK YOU! yardwork Sep 2018 #4
He's absplutely... floWteiuQ Sep 2018 #5
He's far worse than a Vichy collaborator. He is supporting Trump to make sure the right wing agenda Nitram Sep 2018 #6
Great article. dalton99a Sep 2018 #8
I wish I'd paid more attention in History classes Fritz Walter Sep 2018 #9
ALSO a great analogy. maddiemom Sep 2018 #11
Thanks Fritz Walter Sep 2018 #13
Good one, on the money. brush Sep 2018 #15
Likely correct, as the whole thing has just sown more spirit-killing Orwellian confusion and doubt. VOX Sep 2018 #10
While They Are Collaborators, The Press Isn't Emphasizing Enough that Trump is Incompetent & Insane dlk Sep 2018 #12
So true. They should be calling out Ryan and McConnell and, ugh... brush Sep 2018 #16
yup spot on... Javaman Sep 2018 #19

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
2. Could that have been written
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 07:16 AM
Sep 2018

by Jarvanka? They would love to "get out of Dodge" before the subpoenas hit the WH. Nah, she has her heavily Botoxed head up her daddy's ass so far it is incapable of thinking rationally.

TommyCelt

(838 posts)
17. Still think it's Kelly...
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 09:47 AM
Sep 2018

Out of this trump's inner circle, the CoS's formal denial is conspicuously lacking.

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
3. Is the whole fucking narrative real?
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 07:28 AM
Sep 2018

Is this just a small Nuremberg fire distracting from the Kavanaugh hearing and allowing Trump to play the victim card to get his cult out to vote?

Look at his pathetic cabinet, how many of those greedy bastards would put country over party?

I also remember that it was the New York Times and sweet Judy Miller who was the final push that allowed for the invasion of Iraq.

I smell a rat.

brush

(53,475 posts)
14. WAPO's Woodward came out with his grand expose book so the NYT...
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 09:35 AM
Sep 2018

conveniently comes out with their op-ed to try to knock if out of the headlines and the lead of cable newscasts.

The substance of both the book and the op-ed are not in dispute but the timing of the Times piece is. Were they sitting on it because they knew Woodward's book was coming out and they wanted to take the spotlight off of their number one industry competitor's output?

Hmmmm?

Nitram

(22,671 posts)
6. He's far worse than a Vichy collaborator. He is supporting Trump to make sure the right wing agenda
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 08:31 AM
Sep 2018

passes and the courts get packed with ultra-conservatives. Like a Vishy collaborator covering up Nazi mistakes and working behind the scenes to aid their agenda.

Fritz Walter

(4,281 posts)
9. I wish I'd paid more attention in History classes
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 09:08 AM
Sep 2018

I wouldn’t have had to Google “Vichy.”

My knowledge of classic horror films, however, recalled a different story. When I first read the piece, I was ready to write an open letter to the anonymous OpEd author:

Dear Dr. Frankenstein,

Sorry the monster you created is out of control... If you cannot or will not destroy it, we will have to take matters into our own hands, and it will not end well for your creature, or you!

/s/the Villagers

Fritz Walter

(4,281 posts)
13. Thanks
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 09:32 AM
Sep 2018

During my only visit to Prague 4 years ago, I learned about the legend of the Golem, a monster created to defend the ghetto from anti-Semitic attacks. The rabbi who created him would deactivate it on Friday evenings. But he forgot to do that once, so the Golem went on a rampage. That monster, too, had to be destroyed.

Interesting tale!

VOX

(22,976 posts)
10. Likely correct, as the whole thing has just sown more spirit-killing Orwellian confusion and doubt.
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 09:12 AM
Sep 2018

And that's what the #45 administration has been about, more than anything, and Steve Bannon even said it flat-out several times. They are destroying the traditional paradigms in such rapid fashion that the intent is to overwhelm the public into accepting radical change, just to make the daily cascade of insane shit go away.

Some of the major shifts so far (some have been around before, but they're back, re-loaded):
-North Korea is our good friend.
-Vladimir Putin is a trustworthy, honest leader.
-Britain, France and European countries are losers, unless they go fascist, too (Bannon's working on that).
-The free press is the enemy of the people. Every outlet lies except Fox Entertainment.
-Democrats, leftists and socialists are godless creatures who murder babies and don't love America.
-Defeated political adversaries, even as retired civilians, must continue to be publicly punished.
-White nationalists are good people.

Is this even the United States any longer? November, you can't get here fast enough.

dlk

(11,438 posts)
12. While They Are Collaborators, The Press Isn't Emphasizing Enough that Trump is Incompetent & Insane
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 09:24 AM
Sep 2018

They prefer pushing the "whodunnit" narrative, to the detriment of us all.

brush

(53,475 posts)
16. So true. They should be calling out Ryan and McConnell and, ugh...
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 09:43 AM
Sep 2018

the dreaded, biding-his-time Pence to get 25th Amendment proceedings going ASAP.

Javaman

(62,442 posts)
19. yup spot on...
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 10:20 AM
Sep 2018

I wrote the following on another site:

"the rudderless and floundering administration is now run by a bunch of ideologue wonks that don't have to answer to the people (not that the orange asshole ever did) and that is truly a frightening prospect.

if there ever was a time where our nations history that the government has been taken over by a faction of unamerican assholes, it is now.

the writer of the op-ed should come clean and reveal themselves, because at the end of the day, if they continue to choose to be anonymous, they will be hung out to dry (when they are eventually revealed) as seditious pricks out to set their own agenda free of congressional oversite: aka a soft coup d etat.

while I'm happy the op-ed came out, I am pissed that this person and those others involved, who are against the trump, didn't have the guts to invoke the 25th amendment. they, instead, chose to put forth their own agenda. they are no better than trump.

we are living in some truly fucked up times."

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