Steve Bannon, who was ousted from his role as White House chief strategist on Friday, will return to his former home of Breitbart News, the right wing news website that has served as a platform for white nationalists.
“The populist-nationalist movement got a lot stronger today,” Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow said in a statement Friday announcing Bannon’s return just a few hours after Bannon’s White House exit. “Breitbart gained an executive chairman with his finger on the pulse of the Trump agenda.”
Bannon led Breitbart’s Friday evening editorial meeting, where he told staff to work hard to advance a conservative agenda, Bloomberg News reported.
Upon his ouster, Bannon said that he plans to fight for President Donald Trump, just from the outside.
“In many ways, I think I can be more effective fighting from the outside for the agenda President Trump ran on,” Bannon told the New York Times. “And anyone who stands in our way, we will go to war with.”
One of his first battles will reportedly be over funding the border wall. Bannon has told associates that he plans on urging Trump to demand that any spending resolution include funding to begin building the border wall, according to the New York Times.
Darn, i was hoping Trump and Gannon would destroy each other.
This dude worries me a whole lot more than Neo-Nazi’s.
Bannon, seemingly a delusional out of control alcoholic, has an exaggerated sense of himself and his own power and influence. He’s the “mouth that bored.”
Bannon isn’t promoting Trump. Bannon is promoting Bannon. He’s also using Robert Mercer to self-promote. I doubt Mercer gives a shit about Bannon’s nationalism. He’s just looking for an angle to power. Bannon has a cartoonish sense of the world, but is a determined racist and propagandist. That’s all he is. He was an utter failure as a WH advisor in advancing his agenda. Bannon now seems to be taking aim at Congress - McConnell and Ryan specifically. His first goal is to provoke a government shutdown in order to weaken them. This is the same strategy Ted Cruz used to eventually get Boehner out. We’ve seen this stuff before. The challenge is, like the HC bill, Republicans are being asked by top down Billionaires to support an agenda that isn’t popular with the people and without Obama as POTUS, they can’t obscure the voters’ view with racism and racist appeals.
Bannon is basically spearheading a Tea Party 2.0 revolt against the GOP establishment, and is trying to redefine what a conservative agenda means. That’s not our fight. The establishment GOP is dead. They needed Trump to breathe life into it. And now, the Bannonite agenda which Bannon tried to define for Trump is also basically dead.
Our goal for the last quarter of the year - push our agenda, #resist, push #trumprussia, protect Mueller and get our own coalition to get on the same page about race. Bernie damaged that consensus with his ridiculous campaign to appeal to whites by criticizing identity politics. Everything we’ve seen from the Trump Administration is that it’s all about race.
The GOP is killing themselves and will continue to do so. We have to be organized and focused and make our bigger numbers count at the ballot box. Winning the VA Gov/AG and legislative races is important for the Dems.
Call me a cynical optimist—I’ve been called both—but despite the loving farewell it’s hard to imagine this working out for Trump long-term. Bannon’s a grandiose mischief-maker and loon. And now he’s outside the tent, if you’ve heard that expression, and nature will call eventually.