Jeff, let me share with you something I've learned from watching a lot of people in positions like yours.

Loyalty is the virtue of the wicked.

Your boss lives off loyalty. He demands it. And that's a dangerous thing -- for you.

Let's be clear what I'm talking about here when I'm talking about loyalty. Loyalty is something different than fidelity. Fidelity is being true to someone who has earned your devotion. Fidelity is what good people deserve, and if you don't give it to them, you're less of a person for it.

Loyalty, however, is for people who've fallen short. Loyalty is when you pay for somebody else's sins.

Sometimes that's completely appropriate. When a friend falls on hard times, when a loved one hits the rocks -- loyalty is the gamble we make in the hope, by sticking with them now, that sacrifice might give them the opportunity to redeem themselves. It's the trade we make for greatness to be named later.

But give your boss a good look. Is there much greatness to come later? Is redemption really in his cards? Do you think he's going to change?

Because here's the thing. If it's not, you're paying for nothing. Like I said, I've seen it before.

Loyalty was what Richard Scrushy wanted from his executives at HealthSouth, and they gave it to him, right up until the FBI came knocking on their doors.

All five of his chief financial officers, along with many others, paid for those crimes.

But Scrushy hung them out to dry.

Loyalty is what Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford demanded from his staff. And when the day came that the FBI knocked on his door and carted him off to jail, some of his closest associates paid the price with their careers.

Gov. Robert Bentley had the loyalty of dozens of staffers who now have to put "Worked for the Luv Guv" on their resumes.

Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard expected loyalty from his political allies, including lawmakers he catapulted into office. When the indictment on public corruption charges came down, they stood by him in an Auburn pep rally proclaiming his innocence.

Next year those same officials will have to go back to their constituents and explain what they were doing there.

The short answer is that they were giving the boss their loyalty. And they got nothing but grief in return.

What's on the other side of this for you? A government-paid trip to the "camp" at Maxwell Air Force Base?

I keep thinking back to a book the political strategist James Carville wrote called "Stickin': The Case for Loyalty." In it, Carville tells how his friends wondered why he'd stand by the Clintons when Bill had bungled things so badly, and he recounts how Bill and Hillary had lifted him up from being a broken man, when just a few years before managing Bill's presidential campaign, Carville had literally seen all his possessions fall into a mud puddle.

Whether it was worth it or not, he stuck by them because they had invested in him first. They had trusted him. He owed them.

What has @realdonaldtrump done for you?

He does not invest in people, Jeff. He plays with them, and he plays them against each other. And when they fail or fall short, you know one thing he doesn't give them?

Loyalty.

With this guy, he walks away from his debts in politics just like he did in business.

Already, you've seen him blame you for recusing yourself from the Russia investigation (which was unquestionably the right thing for you to do.)

When his dumb tweets and campaign bravado sabotaged his immigration ban, he blamed your Justice Department for being too politically correct and not having a backbone.

Now his mouthpieces won't say whether you have his confidence.

He's playing you, dude. And when he's done, he'll dump you like a wife whose Botox can't smooth out the crow's feet anymore.

Your best option here isn't to offer your resignation. It's not to threaten your resignation. Just turn it in and walk away.

One report about your tendered resignation said you were doing it out of some sense of honor. Which Confederate general do you think you are? Not Pickett, I hope.

Just quit. You did your best. It'll be one more Lost Cause. Come back to Alabama and we might raise a little statue of you and a generation from now folks can fight over whether to tear it down.

But the most important thing here is to get the hell out of there while you still can.

Come home, Jeff Sessions. Come home.