Asked what the turning point was, he says, “It’s the Republican establishment. The Republican establishment has no interest in Trump’s success on this. They’re not populists, they’re not nationalists, they had no interest in his program. Zero. It was a half-hearted attempt at Obamacare reform, it was no interest really on the infrastructure, they’ll do a very standard Republican version of taxes.
“What Trump ran on – border wall, where is the funding for the border wall, one of his central tenets, where have they been? Have they rallied around the Perdue-Cotton immigration bill [legislation proposed by Republican Senators David Perdue and Tom Cotton that would revamp the system of legal immigration, favoring immigrants with education, skills and English proficiency. On what element of Trump’s program, besides tax cuts – which is going to be the standard marginal tax cut – where have they rallied to Trump’s cause? They haven’t.”
Show me the falsehood in those statements.
I don’t think anyone would disagree with the parts you just quoted, or have a problem with Bannon saying that in an interview. The GOPe is the problem. Agreed.
The part of the Weekly Standard quote attributed to Bannon that is disturbing is the talk about “that presidency, the presidency we fought for, and won, is over.”
It’s disturbing because it sounds like Bannon is saying Trump has given up.
It is also suspect because the Weekly Standard is not above twisting words to further the narrative that Trump is failing.
If the quote is accurate then it is disturbing that Bannon would go to the neverTrumpers and give them this scoop.
I still have lots of questions.