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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChaos on the right inures to our benefit.
I am looking forward to the right wing crack up.
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Bannon said he is going to war against Javanka and the closet globalists and Democrats in his administration as well as Congressional Republicans . Even if he is doing it ostensibly to help Trump he will only hurt him by sowing chaos.
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,618 posts)the GOP as planned, then that benefits us, right? They will be too busy with protecting their party and maybe back off of destroying the country for a little while. Also, if Bannon goes after the "liberals" (Ivanka and Jared) 45 will be pissed off and confused/crazy (more confused/crazy than he normally is) and that is good for us too.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Bannon assigns blame for the thwarting of his program on the West Wing Democrats, but holds special disdain for the Washington establishmentespecially those Republicans who have, he believes, willfully failed to provide Trump with meaningful victories.
And, he believes, things are about to get worse for Trump. Theres about to be a jailbreak of these moderate guys on the Hilla stream of Republican dissent, which could become a flood.
Bannon says that he once confidently believed in the prospect of success for that version of the Trump presidency he now says is over. Asked what the turning point was, he says, Its the Republican establishment. The Republican establishment has no interest in Trumps success on this. Theyre not populists, theyre not nationalists, they had no interest in his program. Zero. It was a half-hearted attempt at Obamacare reform, it was no interest really on the infrastructure, theyll do a very standard Republican version of taxes.
What Trump ran onborder wall, where is the funding for the border wall, one of his central tenets, where have they been? Have they rallied around the Perdue-Cotton immigration bill? On what element of Trumps program, besides tax cutswhich is going to be the standard marginal tax cutwhere have they rallied to Trumps cause? They havent.
Bannon believes that those who will now try to influence Trump will hope to turn him in a sharply different direction.
I think theyre going to try to moderate him, he says. I think hell sign a clean debt ceiling, I think youll see all this stuff. His natural tendencyand I think you saw it this week on Charlottesvillehis actual default position is the position of his base, the position that got him elected. I think youre going to see a lot of constraints on that. I think itll be much more conventional.
But Bannon believes that Trump, with the help of Stephen K. Bannon, has already effected a lasting realignment of American politics.
As for himself, Bannon says the fight is just beginning.
I feel jacked up, he says. Now Im free. Ive got my hands back on my weapons. Someone said, its Bannon the Barbarian. I am definitely going to crush the opposition. Theres no doubt. I built a f***ing machine at Breitbart. And now Im about to go back, knowing what I know, and were about to rev that machine up. And rev it up we will do.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/bannon-the-trump-presidency-that-we-fought-for-and-won-is-over./article/2009355
BigmanPigman
(51,618 posts)in the near future, does it?
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)But that just sows chaos. He feels Trump is a victim of globalists, conventional Republicans, and closet Democrats in the White House, and that is who he intends to do battle with it.
BigmanPigman
(51,618 posts)like Pheonix rising from the ashes (a stronger GOP).
ecstatic
(32,723 posts)They were swimming in chaos last year.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Bannon said he is going to war against the GOP establishment that betrayed him:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/bannon-the-trump-presidency-that-we-fought-for-and-won-is-over./article/2009355
Yonnie3
(17,462 posts)Is Bannon doing it for us?
Things will get insane for the mid-terms.