The early exit of the President’s staffers is American political theater

A movie-style review of the current administration

You can usually tell whether a movie is going to be good or not soon after it begins.

For some (perhaps, for many), the sloppy story beats of the 45th president’s administration were predictable from the opening cues. We all knew this former real estate agent was strategically and offensively tearing down American democracy when he lit the match of the birther movement and then later set fire to the rule of law and all common sense by colluding with a foreign adversary — while simultaneously vilifying American intelligence AND the media, in one sloshing greedy swallow of bitter white supremacy.

To be clear, white supremacy was boldly and arrogantly all through the original script and every rewrite too. Everyone who auditioned for a part in this President’s production [DeVos, Mulvaney, and others] knew who and what they were signing up for all along. It was right there in the script y’all. So this massive eleventh-hour exodus — as the President’s loyalists and enablers now tender their resignation and clutch-pearls politically in the final act of his presidency — is less than riveting political theater.

The director/writer’s decision to include a third act insurrection should have easily been discredited as hyperbolic at best; and, not to mention, should never have been bankrolled. Yet, here we are… A sitting President of the United States of America along with his loyalists quite literally just organized and authorized a deadly assault on American democracy; and the attempted destruction of all that is sacred in their attempt at dismantling the will the of American voters in the insurrection of January 6th 2021.

With only ten days left to the Inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, the American people and Federal law enforcement agencies have to pick through the broken legal and literal glass left in the insurrection’s wake.

All we can do now is hope that the seeds that birthed a nation of radical racists, xenophobic anti-American loyalists and all the rest — that produced a climate where a movie like this one could even get made in the first place — prayerfully won’t see a sequel… in 2024.