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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Sep 2018

      1. So. That New York Times op-ed from the anonymous Senior White House official. It's high-grade seagull guano. A perfect example of how Decency Resistance is designed to shield the elite. Let me explain.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Sep 2018

      2. If you have someone who is mentally unfit to be president (as Trump seems to be) there is remedy: the 25th amendment. Instead, according to the op-ed & to Woodward's book, we have something far worse: an administrative coup.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Sep 2018

      3. The virtue of 25th amendment solution is that it keeps everything in the open: unfit president is evaluated, cabinet & congress take responsibility. Everyone can be judged by their public actions. That's vastly superior to a secret coup.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Sep 2018

      4. What we now have is a two-tier government: Trump tweeting and ranting & his staff executing separate policy. This undermines democratic legitimacy & ability of other countries to trust USA as much as actually executing Trump's policies would.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Sep 2018

      5. Part of the intent here seems to be to shield GOP --including feckless congress -- from responsibility for the Trump fiasco. "It's not true that we were complicit -- we tried to stop him!"

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Sep 2018

      6. We have remedies for Trump: not just 25th amendment but congress could investigate & rebuke, staff could quit. The op-ed is a justification for why these remedies are not being applied.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Sep 2018

      7. What is really masterful about the op-ed is how it co-opts the language of the opposition to defend working for Trump: civility, resistance, McCain.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Sep 2018

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          8. Of course, it's easy to use the language of the part of the opposition (what I call the Decency Resistance) because that language is itself a form of elite self-defense from being held accountable for Trump. See Heer here:https://twitter.com/heerjeet/status/1036074361369681920 …

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          1. McCain's funeral was very moving and appropriately political (as befits the funeral of a major political figure). But it also reflected the weakness of a certain type of politics, Decency Resistance or Ancien Régime Resistance.
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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Sep 2018

          9. This should be a reminder that the real resistance is not among White House officials writing anonymous op-eds or even at John McCain's funeral. The real resistance is in popular organization -- protests, strikes, and electioneering -- aimed at changing the status quo

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Sep 2018

          10. For more thoughts on this, see here: https://newrepublic.com/minutes/151068/anonymous-white-house-official-admits-times-op-ed-administrative-coup …

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        1. Tara #FBPE #Rejoin‏ @LJR1626 5 Sep 2018
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          FSB would be proud.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Sep 2018
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          I'm getting there! (See point 8).

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        1. Patrick Anderson‏ @pimlius 5 Sep 2018
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          Yes! Thank you. It’s like the armed robbery accomplice telling the terrified bank customers not to worry, he is there to make sure the violent, crazy ringleader doesn’t get too out of hand while they rob the bank together.

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        1. אייל‏ @eyal6699 5 Sep 2018
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          Because that language was susceptible to manipulate in the first place. It valued civility over content & policy.

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        1. PFL 🐆‏ @frankieindc 5 Sep 2018
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          The hubris is astounding. An anonymous cabal deciding what policies should be implemented. If true, these revelations are more treasonous than any tweet. Unconstitutional, non- democratic

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        1. Katbuns‏ @katbuns 5 Sep 2018
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          It’s mike pence

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