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After Ed Gillespie lost, the shaggy alt-righter and his followers immediately denounced him as establishment. Yeah, right. And if Gillespie had won, running the same campaign...
MATT LEWIS
11.08.17 11:54 AM ET
A few observers have recently suggested Steve Bannon is overrated. Tuesday nights results in Virginia only reinforce this view. Bannon backed Republican gubernatorial nominee Ed Gillespie, saying that it was his embrace of Trump policies that gave him a shot at winning (in fairness, I thought Gillespie had a real shot, too). He also raved about Jill Holtzman Vogel, the GOPs lieutenant governor candidate. She is just fantastic
Shes just a fire-breathing populist, he said. They both went down in flames.
In the immediate aftermath of Gillespies loss, Breitbart.com (Bannons outlet) blared headlines calling Gillespie a swamp creature and part of the establishment.
Joel B. Pollak, senior editor-at-large at Breitbart News, wrote that it would be wrong to view this race as a repudiation of Trumpism. Instead, he writes, It would be more accurate to point out that, once again, the Republican establishment came up short. Someone in the Gillespie campaign actually thought it would be a good idea to campaign with Condoleezza Rice who, for all her merits, is a relic of the George W. Bush administration.
Thats what theyre saying now. But if Gillespie had won by running the exact same campaign playbook, they would be praising him as a populist hero, and touting this as a positive referendum on Trumpism.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/another-tuesday-night-loser-the-overrated-steve-bannon
ProfessorGAC
(65,042 posts)As little respect as i have for that academic fraud and corporate sell out, it's laughable to call her out as the reason why Gillespie lost.
He lost because the people other than the 28% have realized the populism is a lie and/or the ties to white nationalism, naziism and the KKK are unacceptable.
Bannon's little boy Joel is clearly just a drone.