Bannon: GOPers Will Be ‘One Big Happy Family’ If They Line Up Behind Trump

Steve Bannon, senior advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, makes a call outside Trump Tower on Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen)
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Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on Saturday said the Republican Party will “be one big happy family” if elected Republicans fall in line behind President Donald Trump.

“If the Republican Party on Capitol Hill gets behind the president on his plans and not theirs, it will all be sweetness and light, be one big happy family,” Bannon said in an interview with the Washington Post.

Bannon said he did not expect that rosy vision to come to pass at any point soon, though: “No administration in history has been so divided among itself about the direction about where it should go.”

David Bossie, the president of Citizens United and Trump’s former deputy campaign manager, on Sunday predicted that Bannon would “be a very loyal soldier to the President as it relates to his agenda from the outside.”

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  1. If they line up behind Trump, they’ll get a lot of exercise trying to follow his daily—sometimes hourly—shifts in position.

  2. Avatar for pb pb says:

    Bow down to Hair Furor.

  3. GOPers Will Be ‘One Big Happy Family’ If They Line Up Behind Trump

    Much like Roderigo and the Borgias.

  4. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    Sounds like a true Fascist.

    Democracy is messy, on purpose. Americans are independent thinkers, opinionated, not afraid to express themselves, and mostly moral people. Makes for a more interesting and better country.

    Not to mention that Trump would be the last guy I can think of to “get behind”.

  5. And Bannon will of corse define what supporting Trump should mean, since Trump himself cannot be trusted, being under house arrest by the Kellyites. Gonna be quite interesting.

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