"I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration" is the title of an explosive, anonymous op-ed published today in the New York Times.
Authored by a senior official in the Trump administration, the piece is a behind-the-scenes firsthand account of the struggle taking place in the eye of the hurricane: the Trump administration itself. According to the anonymous author, President Donald Trump's closest collaborators are, in fact, working against him, undermining the president's decisions and steering the administration in the direction they believe is beneficial to the health of the republic.
While the author praises the Trump administration's accomplishment, he or she argues the following.
"But these successes have come despite — not because of — the president's leadership style, which is impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective."
In the second-to-last passage of the op-ed, the author touches on the recently deceased Republican Senator John McCain.
"We may no longer have Senator McCain. But we will always have his example — a lodestar for restoring honor to public life and our national dialogue."
Hundreds of journalists, bloggers, and citizens are obsessed with a single, uncommon, unconventional, unusual word the author used: "lodestar." The word has captivated people on social media, prompting them to develop wild theories, the Business Insider reports.
According to the same outlet, this is due to the fact that Vice President Mike Pence is known to have frequently used the unusual word, in speeches, public appearances, and the like.
