it finally dawned on me what was going on—it only took me three years. Trump, Ivanka, and Jared were the ones calling most of the shots in the White House, but they wouldn’t blame themselves when things were fucked up. No, the fault for plummeting poll numbers or bad press or confusing policies or the inability to keep some promise the president had made or some scandal always fell to the staff. And the solution was always to get rid of the person, aka the scapegoat, who was letting them down in favor of some new, temporarily perfect replacement—who
