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Trump is always in campaign season. That is all he really likes. Even though he is (technically) termed out, he is still campaigning.Bannon is a smart guy. He should realize by now that Populist Trump is strictly a thing for campaign season.
I’d thought about posting this earlier in the week.It's behind a paywall, so I don't have a link, but Ross Douthat of the NYT interviewed Bannon earlier this week. It is a worthwhile read. Lots of discussion about techno-feudalism and how he thinks all the Silicon Valley people are full of shit, and how we should increase taxes on the wealthy if we don't get government spending under control.
I am beginning to believe that the way out of the wilderness for the Democrats is to exploit this schism and peeling off the working class through pure class warfare. Right now, the Dems are just a slightly larger version of the Social Democratic party in the UK.
What’s he complaining about? As smart as he seems to be he should have known something like what he’s fussing about was bound to happen. Trump is an unprincipled POS. These other people saw it (Surely O’Bannon did) and are just trying to cash in and trumps not going to do anything to stop them because he doesn’t give a shit. O’Bannon knew what he was hitching his star to. I have no sympathy for him.“Everything they’re doing (the tech oligarchs) — crawling on their bellies, to try to get into and pollute this movement — is because they see the raw political power of this movement. I find it disgusting and revolting.”
I think part of why I find Bannon easier to listen to is that he actually has a discernible ideology that is driven by an internal logic, as reprehensible as I find it. Contrast that mindset with his above thoughts on the tech oligarch class.
Welcome to the resistance...checks notes....rubs eyes....double take....STEVE FUCKING BANNON?
Who could have ever seen this coming?Came here to say the same thing. The Douthat interview was fascinating. Your point about the schism is exactly right.
Trump has sold out the working class people in the MAGA movement to make room for the billionaires. So much for the populist GOP.
You can tell President Trump doesn’t totally trust the oligarchs. We’re putting in very tough antitrust people into the Justice Department and to the alphabet agencies… Look, I’m not a conservative, right? I’m a Republican ’cause I’m a registered Republican. I’m really a populist nationalist…
And by the way, those oligarchs – and people on CNN are gonna understand it – just like they’ve turned on you now, right? They’ve abandoned the progressive left. They will abandon us and do the same thing. They seek power. Right now, their feeling is they can see the math and they see that we have a built-in coalition. So they’re with us – but only temporarily.
Yep. He's been married to Trump for years and helped pay his way through professional school, so to speak. And then Trump up and leaves him for a younger woman, essentially. And Bannon is acting like a scorned spouse.I think his main problem is that he sees Trump as an avatar of his own vision rather than seeing Trump for what he is. He feels like he made Trump in 2016 and now others are taking him away for their own purposes.
I am beginning to believe that the way out of the wilderness for the Democrats is to exploit this schism and peeling off the working class through pure class warfare.
I get your point but only so far. If I metaphorically find one teetering on the brink of disaster, I'll probably reach out and push, not pull.I've been thinking a lot lately that the best thing for dems to do is just sit back, be kind and polite, and let MAGA eat itself. I just think it's bound to happen...the whole cult is filled with these backstabbing liars who can easily come to hate each other as much or more as they do liberals.
Whenever Trump dies or steps aside, the scrum to replace him is going to end up a bloodbath of morons.