Darn, i was hoping Trump and Gannon would destroy each other.
This dude worries me a whole lot more than Neo-Nazi’s.
Bannon, seemingly a delusional out of control alcoholic, has an exaggerated sense of himself and his own power and influence. He’s the “mouth that bored.”
Bannon isn’t promoting Trump. Bannon is promoting Bannon. He’s also using Robert Mercer to self-promote. I doubt Mercer gives a shit about Bannon’s nationalism. He’s just looking for an angle to power. Bannon has a cartoonish sense of the world, but is a determined racist and propagandist. That’s all he is. He was an utter failure as a WH advisor in advancing his agenda. Bannon now seems to be taking aim at Congress - McConnell and Ryan specifically. His first goal is to provoke a government shutdown in order to weaken them. This is the same strategy Ted Cruz used to eventually get Boehner out. We’ve seen this stuff before. The challenge is, like the HC bill, Republicans are being asked by top down Billionaires to support an agenda that isn’t popular with the people and without Obama as POTUS, they can’t obscure the voters’ view with racism and racist appeals.
Bannon is basically spearheading a Tea Party 2.0 revolt against the GOP establishment, and is trying to redefine what a conservative agenda means. That’s not our fight. The establishment GOP is dead. They needed Trump to breathe life into it. And now, the Bannonite agenda which Bannon tried to define for Trump is also basically dead.
Our goal for the last quarter of the year - push our agenda, #resist, push #trumprussia, protect Mueller and get our own coalition to get on the same page about race. Bernie damaged that consensus with his ridiculous campaign to appeal to whites by criticizing identity politics. Everything we’ve seen from the Trump Administration is that it’s all about race.
The GOP is killing themselves and will continue to do so. We have to be organized and focused and make our bigger numbers count at the ballot box. Winning the VA Gov/AG and legislative races is important for the Dems.
Call me a cynical optimist—I’ve been called both—but despite the loving farewell it’s hard to imagine this working out for Trump long-term. Bannon’s a grandiose mischief-maker and loon. And now he’s outside the tent, if you’ve heard that expression, and nature will call eventually.
There’s going to be an internecine war between Fox, Breitbart, and Sinclair for the Conservative dollar. May the best grifter win…or not.
“In many ways, I think I can be more effective fighting from the outside for the agenda President Trump ran on,” Bannon told the New York Times. “And anyone who stands in our way, we will go to war with.”
Maybe it’s just me, but I’m reading this as Bannon planning to hold PP accountable to the batshit he ran on. It doesn’t sound to me like he’s planning to “keep boosting Trump” as much as he’s going to keep boosting his ideology.
When PP is faced with shutting down the government or signing off on a spending bill that doesn’t include funding for his precious wall, Bannon and his ilk will be demanding a shutdown. If PP signs it, they’ll go after him.
I agree. The positions Bannon identifies as “conservative”, i.e. raising taxes on the extreme rich, trade wars, border walls, etc. are not recognizable to others who also consider themselves “conservative”.
That word has lost all meaning and appears to be up for grabs.
Bannon labors under a variety of delusions—not the least of which is his claim that he heads a large “movement” that will rise up and give him the destruction of the US government that he has worked so diligently to achieve.
We can be thankful that Bannon’s delusions are so strong that he will end in utter failure, just as he did as a WH “advisor.”
Unfortunately, we have to put up with a lot of hollow sturm und drang before Bannon’s failure becomes an observable reality., because Bannon equates loudness of attack with successfulness of attack.
Loud bullying and raving—Bannon’s usual M.O.----from Deadbart will only enrage the Trump methbilly base when they realize, finally, that it’s all been a dismal failure and that they won’t be getting their wish for a fascist takeover.
It’s a bit of both—and since Trump has no operating ideology of his own, Bannon’s horrid ideology has been the only one visible in the Trump White House.
And it’s his ideology that will, in the end, cause Bannon to come a cropper.
“Bannon said that he plans to fight for President Donald Trump, just from the outside.”
Trump’s very own Clarence Beeks.
But without the class.
We can only hope that he, too, wakes up in a gorilla suit with a broken zipper.
On a slow boat to Africa.
With a very lonely bunky.
(Apologies to a much younger Sen. Franken)
As @aaron has said this is a Republican problem, they own it and we should let them fix it, not waste any of our energy on it.
Democrats and like minded progressives need to be be marshalling good candidates for runs at everything from school boards to Congress in the coming election cycles.
With Bannon out of the WH, the likely hood of a government shutdown just got reduced greatly.
Border Wall the first battle in his War? That’ll go well.
Simple solution.
Just take money from early nutrition programs, cancer and Alzheimer research and use it to build that hateful wall!
You’re right. It’s just wordgames. Bannon’s being cagey and Trump, I’m sure, recognizes the veiled threat.
I would like to see Bannon get investigated by Mueller’s team. It might wipe that little grin off his chubby, ugly face.
Here:
Bob Mercer and Steve Bannon had a five hour meeting Wednesday to plot out next steps, said a source with knowledge of the meeting.
They plotted strategy going forward — both political and media strategy. The meeting was at Mercer’s estate on Long Island. Mercer had dinner the next night at Bedminster with President Trump and a small group of donors. The source said Mercer and Bannon “remain strong supporters of President Trump’s and his agenda.”
Mercer may not give a shit about ¨economic nationalism¨, but he certainly does care about power, and is deeply reactionary.
Nice Jane Mayer article in the New Yorker on Mercer.
Mercer is well past reactionary and more like a full-blown fascist.