This whole piece merits a good, close read. I sense that this is not the Washington Post being alarmist and trying to sell newspapers, but that it's all really that concerning right now, with the Robert Mueller investigation zeroing in on Trump.
"The Trump White House," to use the authors' words, is at a "precarious juncture."
Stephen Bannon himself predicted this would happen:
But some allies fret that the president’s coalition could crack apart under the growing pressure. Stephen K. Bannon, the former Trump strategist who helped him navigate the most arduous phase of his 2016 campaign, predicted 2019 would be a year of “siege warfare” and cast the president’s inner circle as naively optimistic and unsophisticated.
Check out Trump's expression in the photo below taken on December 7th. This piece came out the next day on the 8th. He's definitely not happy. How could he be? I'm sure it hasn't been a bed of roses for his "fixer," Michael Cohen, either.
It's not only what he'll do, or what those around him will do, but the evil, damning spirit that can, yet again, get unleashed. This is a Twitter-fed, "siege warfare" campaign and mentality, as it were, that gets exaggerated, but nonetheless stoked and on the defense.
Let's not forget the sadistic, reckless zero-tolerance policy with respect to Central American migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border that resulted in a horrific episode that continues forward, nightmarishly, for the children—many of them small children—whose lives, alongside those of their parents and families, have been seriously, if intentionally, cast into jeopardy. Designs and actions like these are hateful, destructive, and perverse.
May cool heads prevail in the coming weeks and months.
We must all weather this, no matter what. And not just us in the U.S., but the planet, as a whole.
Read on. Stay tuned. Have a heart. Do not succumb to the ugliness. Get woke!
-Angela Valenzuela
Siege warfare’: Republican anxiety spikes as Trump faces growing legal and political perils
A growing number of Republicans fear that a battery of new revelations in the far-reaching Russia investigation has dramatically heightened the legal and political danger to Donald Trump’s presidency — and threatens to consume the rest of the party, as well.
President Trump added to the tumult Saturday by announcing the abrupt exit of his chief of staff, John F. Kelly, whom he sees as lacking the political judgment and finesse to steer the White House through the treacherous months to come.
Trump remains headstrong in his belief that he can outsmart adversaries and weather any threats, according to advisers. In the Russia probe, he continues to roar denials, dubiously proclaiming that the latest allegations of wrongdoing by his former associates “totally clear” him. Continue reading here.
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