The NYT has published a letter by an anonymous individual in Trump´s White House who claims that he and others in the Government are protecting us from Trump. This is what I think of the letter and Its author.

The author is a hypocrite who is trying to benefit politically  from this sad situation.

To oppose Trump is not enough to talk behind his back calling him a child or by stealing papers from his desk. It has to be done frontally, face to face and in public in order to have  credibility.

And then Trump should be opposed not by not doing what the author wants him to do, but for having done what the author claims credit for having enabled him to do.

Trump should be opposed for being a racist who insults and attacks all minorities day in and day out, for having given the ultra rich a tax cut that only future generation will pay, for daily trying to destroy the safety net, for dividing our society between us and them, for separating children from their parents, for eliminating all protections to the environment, for being dishonest in each and everyone of his actions. I could go on and on but there is no more space here.

So the author is trying to position himself in the high ground of the Republican Party, as if such high ground existed. He is not protecting us from Trump. On the contrary he has enabled him to do all the terrible things he´s done.