Trump's communications director has resigned. Good luck finding a new one

The news that White House communications director Mike Dubke has resigned came as a surprise to most Americans, primarily because few of us were under the impression the Trump White House even had such a position. Someone was responsible for directing the tire fire? How long had that been going on?

But now the White House needs to fill the position all over again, and Republicans with the appropriate resumes are even less eager to join Team Trump than they were four months ago.

"Hell no!” said one Republican — one of the most common types of response BuzzFeed News got from operatives. “That would be career suicide.” [...]

"That's like asking someone who just witnessed a horrific bungee jumping accident whether they would like to go next,” one Republican source responded in a text message. [...]

"Sorry, I’m sorry," the source said between stifled laughs. "Oh, you’re being serious? Oh my god, I’m crying of laughter. Why would anyone in their right mind want to be his communications director?"

Republican Party stalwarts are willing to push Trump's agenda and tolerate mountains of grief and scandal for the sake of chipping away at their own. But working in the same building as the man is, for the same people that take on the job of making Paul Ryan look humane or deflect questions about Mitch McConnell's favorite sunning rock, right out of the question. And this leaves Team Trump a bit in the lurch:

The disclosures from investigations stemming from Russian meddling in last year’s election — coupled with the president’s habit of undercutting his staff — have driven away candidates for West Wing jobs that normally would be among the most coveted in American politics, according to people involved in the search.

Of the two—a scandal involving connections between multiple members of the Trump White House and foreign dealers who do not have our own nation's best interests at heart, and the presidential "habit" of treating his core team like dirt—which do we suppose is making prospective hires more wary? That’s a tough call.

from Daily Kos http://ift.tt/2qHWaNm