1. I prefer boring truths to fascinating lies so I rarely do counter-intuitive takes. But Let me suggest Steve Bannon has more of a future than people think.
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5. So, sooner or later, GOP will return to Bannonism. It's all they have:https://newrepublic.com/article/146501/afterlife-steve-bannon …
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that presupposes Bannon will still have influence when there are many younger and more extreme people waiting in the wings
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You don't need mass appeal when you're the plutocracy, because you can buy the policy outcomes you want.
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Doesn't this leave out the possibility of a third future option for GOP? I'd hesitate to predict, but it's not like anyone saw Bannon coming.
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Bannon, maybe not but white nationalism or at least supremacism has been apparent in that party for a generation
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You misspelled kleptocracy.
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Mark my words: He's about to hire a personal trainer, nutritionist, dermatologist, stylist, and meditation coach. Dude is going to vanish and then reappear after the mid-terms looking fit, fashionable, rested, and ready to king-make.
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There are hundreds of people that could easily slot into the role of "intellectual leader" of American ethnonationalism that Bannon held. He has no special skills, and his celebrity was short lived.
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Traditional GOP: plutocrats. Nouveau GOP: bigots. Trump appealed to two different circles. After him -- minority party.
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People want to imagine that Bannon getting fired by Breitbart was a rejection of white nationalism. It was actually a rejection BY white nationalism.
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