I’m not a huge fan of Politico and its highschool gossip approach to political reporting, but I felt this was a rather significant story(and it’s super short).
In particular:
Deare was a political appointee who came to the NSC after Trump's inauguration from National Defense University, where he had served as the dean of administration.
To explain, usually you’ve got roughly two types of bureaucrats: the career professionals who are just there to do their job as best they can, an objective made more or less difficult by the political goals of the admin in the White House; and the political appointees, loyal party-first apparatchiks and activists that care far less for the bureau or its brief(or good governance, for that matter) than they do for pushing the political goals of the admin in the White House. This guy was the latter.
Now it’s only one person, but if this is a sign of something larger, if Donald’s starting to have morale problems even with the party fanatics he’s appointed, that means his admin is in some truly dire straights from a functional perspective. I’m not saying this makes impeachment more likely, or even Republican opposition in Congress, but if party loyalists are getting fired to salve his ego, and are beginning to cut bait and jump ship, then Donny’s going to start having some serious problems staffing anything(well, more serious seeing as he’s ALREADY having problems finding anyone willing to work in his admin).
