Miles Taylor is "Anonymous"

Republican, former chief of staff to DHS confesses to being Anonymous, writer of Op-Ed in NYT.

No president in history has had so many former staff members come forward and say the President is unfit for office.

Yes, and I recall the LVA conservatives throwing a tantrum saying anonymous couldn't possibly be anyone that works in the Trump administration and that the whole story was fake news. 

Remember, "fake news" = Republican for "stuff we don't want to hear." Trump described Obama's latest speech as a "fake speech," as if it had never really happened or something.

Nothing Trumpers say can be construed as the truth.

I'd guess there were plenty in every administration.  They didn't have social media to spout off to after they'd been disciplined or fired.

Remember Harry Truman's classic quote?  "If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog." 

That Anonymous guy...what a dick.

I don't think that what he wrote makes him a "dick." I think it makes him someone with the courage to speak out about conditions in the most toxic workplace in the US over the last four years--the White House. He's since said that he wrote anonymously so that the information and not the source would be the focus.

He had good reason to be cautious. Trump, upon learning of the then-anonymous op-ed piece and subsequent book, called the author "treasonous." As if pointing out Trump's flaws was treason! He was, of course, savaged by Hannity and his ilk.

It's a false equivalence to say that there are disgruntled staff members in every administration. The difference here is that the head of said administration is an obnoxious slimy asshole, and working for him must have been like being inside a dumpster fire, every single day. 

OK, what a pathetic little weasel.

However, never in a million years would I blow a whistle.  I've seen lesser examples of what happens to whistleblowers, or anyone who publicly criticizes the boss or the organization they work for.  It is a temptation to bring forward stuff you don't like about the person or institution.  Especially if there are more than one of you who thinks it and talks it, and the bravado builds.

Usually involves an employee who somewhere along the line has been disciplined or didn't get the promotion they thought they earned, or other cause of resentment.  I understand a whistleblower can be up for a nice monetary reward if the wrongdoing is proven (almost impossible), it can be calculated how much it cost the government and how much is or can be recouped to go back into the till (almost never). Waste, fraud, abuse, those three.  Immorality isn't in that package, those are (quietly) handled another way.  Look at Clinton, even JFK, everybody knew about his serial womanizing.

A very steep hill to climb to get back at the boss, especially at that level.

I wonder just how much fraud and corruption goes undetected because people feel the same about whistleblowers as you do. They get painted as, yes, "weasels" and betrayers of the noble, benevolent bosses who bestowed their jobs. They get fired, if they haven't quit already, are tarred and feathered by their angry former bosses, and often, can't get a job somewhere else as a result. So I'm sure that ninety-nine out of a hundred who see something that would warrant blowing a whistle...don't.

For those that do blow that whistle---well, let's just say, no good deed goes unpunished.

For such a short post, it's amazing how much you got wrong.

"Social media?" Mr. Taylor's anonymous editorials were published in newspapers.

"Disciplined or fired?" Zero evidence of that.

"Plenty in every administration?" Okay, do Obama's eight years.

When an administration is corrupt, incompetent, and criminal like Trump's, they don't even try to convince you otherwise. All they have to do is convince you that everyone else is that same. For that they need useful idiots who will actually believe that.

And here you are.

I worked for a great company, But I had a few jerks that I had worked for.  During my Viet-nam experience, I learned, instinctlvely and literally to attain a low profile when needed.   I kept that same dogma figuratively through out my working years.  It served me well. 

You can not make a frontal assualt against your boss, it will not end well.  When I was treated unfairly, unjustly or wronged, I would get my satisfaction on the low down. no one the wiser. 

Work or personal relationships, When you do for people and they don't appreciate it, it makes you want to stop doing for them.  My personality is one that I have strong allegiance and loyalty to whomever I'm working for until they fuck me,  then it's best for them to just turn around and bend over.