I agree with the assessment that the anon op-ed is likely to make things worse rather than better. Question: could it be designed to make things MUCH worse, to provoke a crisis? In other words, is aim not to convince, but to provoke Trump until he becomes actionably unhinged?
Still think it's not unreasonable to think it's an attempt at finding more "allies" in a notoriously backstabby WH. Everyone there has shown so much, errm, "moral flexibility", that it must be hard to know who to talk to about resisting & the 25th.