[mfcorgi]

The prior comment is not using the definition of sane/insane as in: "the leadership of the White House is composed of people that are insane." Rather: "the decisions and policies set forth by the White House are insane." That's an important distinction.

To "sane-wash" is to take an extraordinary break from liberal order/american historical norms and treat such break as normal politics.

I completely agree that there are rational actors at the White House who have an incorrect sense of a Deep State at the BLS, and are taking what they would describe as a rational step and firing it's leader. But simply because they are rational does not mean that their subsequent decisions are rational.

If am a rational person and I have an incorrect belief that my house has cockroaches, then I burn down my house to get of the cockroaches, then the news media reports I "took bold new steps to rid my house of cockroaches," I have been sane washed.