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Departed White House strategist speaks to THE WEEKLY STANDARD.
6:18 PM, AUG 18, 2017 | By PETER J. BOYER
... "The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over," Bannon said Friday, shortly after confirming his departure. "We still have a huge movement, and we will make something of this Trump presidency. But that presidency is over. Itll be something else. And therell be all kinds of fights, and therell be good days and bad days, but that presidency is over" ...
Bannon may have resigned, but it was clear from the time that Kelly became chief of staff that Bannons remaining time in the West Wing was going to be short. Kelly undertook a study of the West Wings operating system, and let it be known that he kept hearing about Bannon as a disruptive force and a source of leaks aimed at undermining his rivals ...
It is plainly Bannons view that his departure is not a defeat for him personally, but for the ideology hed urged upon the president ...
http://www.weeklystandard.com/bannon-the-trump-presidency-that-we-fought-for-and-won-is-over./article/2009355
Quixote1818
(29,013 posts)Seems only good could come from this.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)By Sophie Tatum
Updated 9:38 PM ET, Fri August 18, 2017
... "I think he's in a position right now where he's much more isolated than he realizes," said Gingrich, a former speaker of the House of Representatives who was a loyal Trump supporter throughout the campaign.
"On the Hill, he has far more people willing to sit to one side and not help him right now, and I think that he needs to recognize he's taken a good first step with bringing in Gen. (John) Kelly (as chief of staff), but he needs to think about what has not worked," Gingrich said.
Hours after Gingrich's comments, news broke that Trump had fired chief strategist Steve Bannon, according to multiple sources -- the latest of a series of White House departures in recent months ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/18/politics/newt-gingrich-donald-trump-isolated/index.html
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)LLOYD GROVE
08.18.17 8:10 PM ET
... "Im ticked off at the Emperor God," said .. Coulter ...
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)outreight russian fascist?
Willie Pep
(841 posts)Probably more racist, less likely to support certain economic policies like the TPP and other trade agreements, less likely to support foreign wars. The Bannon faction reminds me of Pat Buchanan except with less emphasis on culture war issues and religion.
I think the Tea Party faction is closer to mainstream conservatism only with more of a libertarian bent on economics.
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)Nationalist-populist??? NO racist fascist is more like it!
Willie Pep
(841 posts)I am just using their own terminology. They call themselves nationalists and populists. Most of them don't claim to be fascists although one could argue that is just to avoid the negative connotations of that term.
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)tea party crowd and libertarians to the alt right. In fact, libertarians are highly susceptible to that ideology and a lot of young people are.
It's really white nationalism disguised as economic nationalism. Religion and culture do play a role. We are definately talking christians only, no abortion under any circumstances including rape. They are anti-feminist in nature.
The only way to achieve this is through fascism.
Willie Pep
(841 posts)Or at least they dislike mainstream Christian churches for being too compromised by "modernism" or liberalism. I always got the sense that they were more into things like Social Darwinism, biological racism and eugenics. The same goes for libertarians. They always struck me as less religious than mainstream conservatives.
sofa king
(10,857 posts)He'll be "darting about like a rat" in his cell, dodging bullets, on his Night of the Long Knives.
C Moon
(12,225 posts)Fuck them!
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)warning to Trump, too. This could be interesting
catbyte
(34,517 posts)It won't be nearly as easy getting rid of this huge dump.
BTW, I'll just bet that Breitbart staff all secretly went out & bought cans of Lysol when they found out Bannon was coming back. He looks like a walking communicable disease.