The Warm Blanket Of Anonymity
True servants of the people need not boast. This anonymous author does, so we know he is not.
September 6, 2018 By Ben Domenech
The New York Times’ decision to publish an anonymous op-ed from a resistance official inside the Trump administration has had its intended effect: total takeover of the conversation. Sorry, Bob Woodward. Senior White House officials are scrambling to deny authoring the piece. White House officials like Sarah Huckabee Sanders are calling for the author to fess up and resign. And surprisingly enough, people like David Frum agree – maintaining that holding this view while continuing to work for the president is a Constitutional Crisis.
I have a more restrained view, because this whole thing strikes me as an exercise in fart-sniffing that is patently ridiculous. This op-ed is designed to set up a post-November “I AM IRON MAN” moment where the individual – whose importance within the government is probably significant, but whose name ID is probably next to nil (otherwise a public resignation would, you know, send a message) – unveils themselves before the eyes of the people and reaps the media tour benefits of the Sally Yates who have prepared the way.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/09/06/the-warm-blanket-of-anonymity/