Leaving So Soon?
Why the sudden exodus of White House staffers should STOP.
The insurrection of January 6th 2021 was led by the renegades of the American republic — a sloppy group of Confederate/Trump flag waving domestic terrorists seeking to belch and blow their disdain for all political decorum, the rule of law, American democracy and basic human decency. They’re entirely unhinged, unmasked (and/or unhooded, however you want to view that) and willfully ignorant of the tenets of a democratic society.
In the coming days, some of these same domestic terrorists will proudly (yet erroneously) cite historical precedent for their actions. They’ll probably point fingers at each other and at the left. Let’s face it, in desperation, they may even try and point a finger at Secretary Clinton too — with no legitimate grounds of course. They seem to do it ‘just because’. Some will surely cry crocodile tears of conveniently timed enlightenment, I’m sure. But they’ll find the exhausted stares of a country blinking back with a voluntary numbness and sitting this particular performance art out altogether.
Meanwhile there seems to be the beginnings of a mass exodus from the White House and from this President. According to a Bay Area-based online newsletter SFGate, four staffers resigned during the insurrection:
- Matt Pottinger, deputy national security adviser
- Stephanie Grisham, first lady’s chief of staff
- Rickie Niceta, White House social secretary
- Sara Matthews, White House deputy press secretary
Leaving so soon y’all? Where y’all heading with just fourteen days left to this desperately crooked administration?
My advice is… Stick it out.
You’ve already been hanging in there and co-signing with this President’s profane messaging for exactly 2,032 days — since his infamous escalator ride. You’ve stood in vehement solidarity with him all this time; or, at the very least, you have stood in the most deafening (and hurtful) silence.
You’ve essentially thrown sticks on his ego fire for so long and then pretended not to smell the thick smoke of sedition at every rally. Yet, now you want distance? I don’t get it. Honestly, yet rhetorically… What is different now?
Maybe the egg timer on making America great again suddenly dinged with the insurrection of January 6th 2021 and this is exactly how you had always imagined you would leave things in this country. If what happened on Capitol Hill is the fulfillment of the vision that you have worked so hard to manifest and we’re suddenly “great again” now, then tell us that; and take your leave.
But if the loss of life and the desecration of the Capitol — the very building where Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Representative Elijah Cummings, Representative John Lewis, Senator John McCain, Rosa Parks, twelve U.S. presidents, and some of this nation’s most distinguished citizens have laid in state (in the case of government and military officials) or in honor (in the case of private citizens) — leaves you reasonably horrified… then you’re just beginning to understand how emotionally decimated we are as a nation.
Before Inauguration Day 2021, when the new President and Vice President of the United States take the oath of office, why not contribute something to the peaceful transition of power?
Contributing something toward peace — a peaceful transition — is the job before you in this moment. Remaining won’t entirely be about you. Yet it will be something you can do for the American people. Sad to say, you won’t gain any extra credit from the American people for this. For many, it’s much too late for that.
