This will be an unpopular take, but one thing I can say after four years of speaking privately with some current & former Trump appointees, is that some of them truly internally struggle & personally anguish over their roles and decisions...
...I can’t relate, because I made very different decisions professionally, but their anguish is very real for them. What I can say, is that each has a different breaking point of what they can and cannot tolerate or stand by for, and each makes their own decisions about how...
...to jump off the ship (or not). So, @GSAEmily should know that she is not the first to walk this road, but she will need to dig deep to have the courage to do her part for the country, as the current transition stall is unsustainable...
As I’ve signed onto here, my strong view is the transition must get on with it. The nation’s security is at stake: https://twitter.com/carriecordero/status/1326950674647699458
All I’ll add to respond to the many angry replies to this thread is that one should not equate my articulation of observations, with sympathies. That, and you probably are not familiar with my work and engagement over the past four plus years.