Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Bannon is already going to war — on Trump

Will the alt-right win?

Bannon has returned to Breitbart News, his former haunt and the voice of the white right, and on Tuesday night, when Trump addressed the nation about Afghanistan, Bannon’s Breitbart hit Trump with three unfriendly headlines:

Trump “defends flip-flop in somber speech”

“His McMaster’s voice: Is Trump Afghanistan policy that different from Obama’s?”

“Donald Trump echoes Obama’s ‘Blank Check’ rhetoric in Afghanistan speech”

It was a rhetorical golden shower.

Which way the flow goes now in these early days of the post-Bannon White House could well be determinative — not just for the Trump presidency but for the country as it grapples with a reemergence of white supremacists. Can Trump control the wave of racism he has released? Does he even want to?

“For 100 years, nobody could imagine an American president saying that. That he’s willing to endorse the leaders of the Confederate side of the Civil War, for them that’s an indication that their agenda has some seeds of support.”

MORE: Bannon is already going to war — on Trump – The Washington Post


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