Steve Bannon was instrumental to President Donald J. Trump’s election. Bannon was the one of Trump’s people who most had his finger on the pulse of the forgotten man, the everyman. That’s because he, like Trump is an extraordinary everyman.
Both Trump and Bannon are fighters who also have the intellect/instincts to take on the leftist academics in the media. That’s why the “America First” nationalist base warms up to them. It drove the union/factory worker to jump from the donkey to the elephant in November of 2016.
Unfortunately, Bannon’s fighting spirit can reportedly cause him to rant and be impulsive (I sympathize as someone who can get so fired up that I run my mouth a tad too much). Like Trump, what drives him to success can at times be exactly what trips him up.
Steve Bannon f***d up in speaking with Michael Wolff for Wolff’s upcoming book about the current administration. He has been quoted referring to a meeting Donald Trump Jr. (very popular with the base), Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner (rather unpopular with the base) took with a Russian lawyer (likely working on Clinton’s behalf) regarding possible dirt on Crooked Hillary Clinton during the campaign as “treasonist” and “unpatriotic”.
He also apparently implied that Junior doesn’t have the stomach to stand up to an investigation. The President, in typical fashion responded aggressively and quickly attacking Bannon’s mental stability and minimizing his role in the campaign/administration.
Trump can minimize Bannon all he wants but it was Bannon who claimed on 60 Minutes (when he ate Charlie Rose’s lunch; video here) that when the Billy Bush tapes came out and some in the inner circle scattered while some advised the President-To-Be to drop out, it was Bannon who told Trump victory was 100% if he stayed in. Why? Bannon knew Trump’s base would stick with him as long as Trump stuck with them as he was still a better choice than Crooked Hillary.
Bannon was loyal when things got tough and Trump should remember this. Bannon has maintained his staunch support for Trump and his agenda; it has very recently been reported that Bannon was planning to refute the quotes from Wolff but backed off after the President attacked him.
Even though Bannon left the administration, a case can be made that he was a stronger voice to it from Breitbart. Trump also got on a nice roll in the second half of 2017.
Bannon’s mission in 2018 is to rid both houses of establishment GOP in favor of “America First” nationalist candidates. Will this rift cause Trump to be hoodwinked by swamp rat Republicans who still despise him and want him out into supporting his own enemies from within?
Time will tell but like children in divorced families it could be the MAGA base that suffers most from this. Talk soon.
-Marksman
PS: Volume 2 of Reclaim Your Masculinity in 2018 is coming. But I wanted to touch on this first.