(CNN) Republicans are quitting Washington at a rapid rate these days.

"Did any member of this conference expect that their job would start out every morning trying to go through the list of what's happening in tweets of the day? We're not moving forward right now. We are simply thrashing around."

Mitchell doesn't name President Donald Trump there, but he doesn't need to. Trump's Twitter habit is well-known -- and getting worse -- as is his tendency to veer wildly off message with attacks that border on (or more than border on) racism, xenophobia and potential criminality.

The Post story documents Mitchell's frustration with Trump's attacks on the "Squad" -- four Democratic women of color in Congress -- and, in particular, the President's call for the congresswomen to "go back" where they came from. (Three of them -- Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley were born in the United States. The fourth, Rep. Ilhan Omar, was born in Somalia.)

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