Posted on 01/10/2018 5:54:03 PM PST by Michael van der Galien
Although The Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro is celebrating Steve Bannon's ouster at Breitbart, not everybody shares his happiness. Writing for The Weekly Standard, Jonathan V. Last explains that although he and Bannon didn't see eye to eye on all issues, he did like him. Or, at least, he liked the fact that Bannon had ideas.
'If you squint at him a certain way—and ignore Pepe and Milo and his enthusiastic embrace of an ugly crew—Bannon was almost a reformicon. Or at least what happens when reform conservatism goes on a date with populism, has five drinks too many, and makes some bad life choices.
'For a while, lots of people talked themselves into believing that Bannon's combination of nationalism and reform conservatism was what defined "Trumpism".'
But, writes Last, there is one minor problem with "Trumpism": Trump himself doesn't believe in it. Like Obama before him, the current president is simply a vessel. "People poured their hopes into him," he writes. "If you were an immigration hawk, you thought Trump was the only one who would secure the border... If you read Breitbart, you thought that Trump believed in what Steve Bannon believed."
He goes on to write that The Swamp knew that Trump had no real ideas and ideals, which is why the GOP establishment preferred him over other strong Republican candidates such as Senator Ted Cruz. That didn't surprise him one bit.
But, continues Last, it is surprising that Breitbart.com chose the vessel (Trump) over ideas (Bannon). "Historically, print publications are centered around ideas," Last opines. "That's why they exist. It seems strange—more than strange, really—that when push came to shove, Breitbart picked the president and the corporate tax cut and DACA renewal over the ideas of Steve Bannon. It makes no sense."
Or does it?
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Not only pimping your own article, but what you wrote is utter garbage to boot and NOT “news”!
Hear, hear!
Thanks, humble! :-)
Bannon’s error is heing a leaky media type.
Wow. That's ne of the truest things written about in the media in a long time. I didn't know they had it in them.
Bannon had not many core values anyway, except big government. Bannon’s idea of big government would make Obama look like Rand Paul.
What an absolute crock. Donald J. Trump clearly had both real ideas and ideals, as anyone who cares to check the historical record can see.
It's amazing the utter crap that writers will throw into an article—relying on the effectiveness of the propaganda which has preceded them—content in their belief that enough readers will accept it unquestioningly.
In reality, when I see such unfounded garbage from a "writer", I immediately know that he or she is as full of sh!t as the day is long. In most cases, there's no need to read further...
Yes, ready to take half the county across the rubicon...
Bannon has lots of ideas and we do need that, but what kind of ideas?
“Trump had no real ideas.”
False. Trump has very real ideas. Make America Great Again. Slash regulations. Raise the interest rate. Build a wall. Win. Repeal Obamacare. Etc.
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