Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus's War for the White House

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White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, left, and White House chief of staff Reince Priebus during a meeting with senators. PHOTOGRAPH BY JABIN BOTSFORD / WASHINGTON POST VIA GETTY

By Ryan Lizza
February 3, 2017

President Donald Trump’s first two weeks in office have produced what seems like a year’s worth of drama, but he has made essentially two consequential decisions. He issued a ban on immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries and he nominated Neil Gorsuch, a federal appeals-court judge, to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant after Antonin Scalia’s death, last year.

The immigration ban, a dubious policy that no serious counterterrorism expert believes is necessary, threw the Trump Administration into chaos, alienated large swaths of the federal government, offended international allies, and divided the Republican Party. The announcement of Gorsuch, who, whatever one thinks of his legal views, is clearly qualified to serve on the Court, was executed professionally and united the G.O.P. behind Trump.

The two decisions reflect the two strands of Trumpism vying for control of the new Administration—and the Republican Party—and may be harbingers of coming fights inside the White House.

The immigration ban was a catastrophe from start to finish. It was written in secret by a small group of White House aides, led by Steve Bannon, the President’s chief strategist and the former chairman of Breitbart, the right-wing news site dedicated to white identity politics. Bannon worked closely with Stephen Miller, a former aide to Senator Jeff Sessions, whose formative years on Capitol Hill were spent fighting, in alliance with Breitbart, against the G.O.P.’s immigration reformers.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/steve-bannon-and-reince-priebuss-war-for-the-white-house

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1. At this point few who are paying attention can put it past them. These guys think they'll survive a

... new world order because of their money or some other sense of entitlement.

Fuck em

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2. Had to fix the head and link.

Sorry.