The Anonymity of a Senior Administration Official

I didn't self-identify as that. But when the cabinet is talking about the president being so unhinged that he might need to be removed by his own team, that's the type of thing that in my mind, the American public needed to know about and have an open discussion about. We are in five alarm fire territory for democracy. I somewhat naively thought I could kickstart that kind of conversation by writing this piece from within the administration anonymously. Unfortunately, it did give oxygen to the fire of a deep state. And I later found out from Stephanie Grisham, who was Trump's communications director, that it made the president so insanely paranoid. So, again,