Bannon: 'The Trump Presidency Is Over.' (WARNING: Weekly Standard)

[struggle4progress]

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. It’ll be something else. And there’ll be all kinds of fights, and there’ll 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 Bannon’s remaining time in the West Wing was going to be short. Kelly undertook a study of the West Wing’s 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 Bannon’s view that his departure is not a defeat for him personally, but for the ideology he’d urged upon the president ...

http://www.weeklystandard.com/bannon-the-trump-presidency-that-we-fought-for-and-won-is-over./article/2009355

[Quixote1818]

1. This could get interesting. The base fighting with the base.

Seems only good could come from this.

[struggle4progress]

4. Could be. Or maybe it's just a shadow play.

[struggle4progress]

2. Gingrich: Trump 'more isolated than he realizes' (WARNING: Slime-bucket advises slime-bucket)

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

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3. Coulter Might Dump Trump (WARNING: Zombie)

LLOYD GROVE
08.18.17 8:10 PM ET

... "I’m ticked off at the Emperor God," said .. Coulter ...

[angstlessk]

5. So the bannon faction is to the reight of the tea party faction

outreight russian fascist?

[Willie Pep]

6. The Bannon faction is more of a nationalist-populist faction.

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]

7. You try to make it sound acceptable...

Nationalist-populist??? NO racist fascist is more like it!

[Willie Pep]

8. Yeah fascist works too.

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]

9. bannon has been succesful shifting

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]

12. I thought that many of the younger Alt-Right types were not religious.

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. Someone tell that chump about Gregor Strasser.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Strasser

He'll be "darting about like a rat" in his cell, dodging bullets, on his Night of the Long Knives.

[C Moon]

11. These freaks are trying to start another civil war based on their hate.

Fuck them!

[octoberlib]

13. It almost sounds like Bannon is sending a

warning to Trump, too. This could be interesting

[catbyte]

14. Yeah, my cat had a "huge movement" today too. Luckily I could just scoop the litter box.

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.

[enough]

15. That presidency is over because Bannon was President. NT