Slate - "Steve Bannon's True Motivations (good read, and nauseating)

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/interrogation/2017/07/what_most_people_don_t_get_about_steve_bannon.html

What Most People Don’t Get About Steve Bannon

Understanding Bannon's bigotry, his motivations, and what keeps him whispering in Trump's ear.

By Isaac Chotiner

When it was reported several months ago that Steve Bannon, then Donald Trump’s closest political adviser, had fallen out of favor with the president, there appeared a glimmer of hope that perhaps this White House would “normalize.” Bannon, the former head of Breitbart News, and the administration’s chief rabble-rousing (white) nationalist, was behind grotesque initiatives like Trump’s Muslim ban; according to several accounts, his inability to competently steer the administration, combined with press headlines about his power, soured Trump on his service. Just maybe, one naïvely hoped, sanity would begin to prevail.


But as Joshua Green, national correspondent at Bloomberg Businessweek, reveals in his new best-selling book, Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency, Bannon has left a deep imprint on the White House and the president. Green looks back over Bannon’s career and frightening ideological passions, which have made him the adviser most in tune with the president’s demagogic impulses. (On Friday, however, Politico reported that Bannon may again be on the outs: The president is reportedly upset with Green’s book.)

I spoke with Green recently. During the course of our conversation, which has been edited and condensed for clarity, we discussed how Bannon plans to respond to the Russia investigation, how Trump’s bigotry differs from Bannon’s, and the consequences of seeing history through the lens of a “clash of civilizations.”

Isaac Chotiner: What is Bannon’s place in the White House right now?

Joshua Green: I don’t want to sound like a cliché, I was going to say Game of Thrones, but …

You can do better than that Josh. You’re a national correspondent at Bloomberg Businessweek.

snip - just another piece of a sickening puzzle....read the rest at the link

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. "combined with press headlines about his power"

Exactly how to get rid of any of Trump's Death Easters. Praise them to the skies, talk about their ____________
anything better than Trump (that should cover a wide area).
Twitter is great resource for doing this.

[leftstreet]

2. DURec

Nauseating is correct

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R