In a Washington Post story about the departure of White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon and his return to the “alt-right” web platform Breitbart.com on Saturday, political reporters Robert Costa and John Wagner noted that some Republicans are alarmed at the White House’s passivity in the face of a series of threats laid out by Bannon.

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While some pundits people joked that Bannon’s statements were “literally what cocaine would say” and that the ousted strategist is actually “275 lbs of pure Bolivian flake stuffed into a liver-spotted sausage casing,” others found genuine cause for alarm in the idea of Bannon and Breitbart launching regular broadsides against Republicans in Congress and the White House.

“Advisers to senior congressional Republicans were taken aback that none of the combative language was countered by the White House,” said the Post.

“They just sat out there,” said one Republican staffer. “That told me everything about whether the White House actually cares about making clear it’s on our side.”

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