Review: A Warning

A Warning by Anonymous
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Library shelves now groan under the weight of insider analysis of who I feel confident future historians will rate as among the worst of U.S. presidents. Nothing here strictly feels new in the specifics or generality of a toxic, dysfunctional workplace at the White House. Much has been said about the considered self-immolation of the core staff by mass resignation to bring attention to Trump's mismanagement. So why not follow through? Such questions would resolve this enigma outlined here:

While it is indeed disturbing that we’ve elevated someone so ill-informed as Trump to the nation’s highest office, what’s depressing is how many people around him and in the Republican Party are remaining quiet when their voices are needed to make the difference between poor policy and good government. They don’t necessarily need to speak out publicly against the president to have an impact. They just need to speak up in his presence, in the meetings that count, or among fellow administration officials. Silent Abettors should realize saying something is in their self-interest because, if they don’t, they’ll be the next ones at a microphone defending an unconscionable decision.

I didn't really understand the Section 4: Vice Presidential–Cabinet declaration constitutional option explained here. (Section 4 is the only part of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution that has never been used.)

I don't think concluding material around Trump what-ifs are helpful. There is enough facts than imagining a pro-Al Qaeda stance.

Mentioned here is The Road to Serfdom and the feel is Conservatives Without Conscience and The Authoritarians would also be good complementary reading. I don't know that I was a never-Trumper, yet the documented and exposed Trump behavior is increasingly making me never-GOP. The old cliché has it that "Republicans fall in line,” seems to mean even more so than in Nixon's time that means even falling in line behind an impulsive, megalomaniac, fasticitic wanna-be-autocrat. Aren't we past the warning stage to the action stage? This author hopes Democratic votes will solve the GOP's issue.

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