Sean Spicer may try to sneer away the media’s interest in “palace intrigue,” but what’s happening within the Trump regime is more than just a change of favor among courtiers. In a White House as devoid of soul as the one that Donald Trump visits for a couple of days each week, the people whose spaces cluster around the Oval Office are far more important than they would be if the president held firm beliefs.
And Steve Bannon isn’t just another adviser. His very position—chief strategist—was created especially for Bannon. It marks the special level of influence he’s held both before and after the inauguration. He’s not just another guy in the White House: he’s the ambassador to the alt-right. His office is the embassy of the white nationalist movement that’s gnawing at the heart of Europe and driving noxious hate in America. Bannon isn’t a celebration of the banality of evil. He’s just evil. There’s nothing banal, or hidden, about it.
Now Bannon is in decline, and no one should be sorry about it. But the reason most are giving for his fall …
But for Bannon, the day’s routine obscured the reality that he is a marked man — diminished by weeks of battles with the bloc of centrists led by Trump’s daughter and son-in-law and cut down by the president himself, who belittled Bannon in an interview with the New York Post.
… isn’t likely the driving factor. The Kushner up/Bannon down narrative simplifies the larger story: Bannon’s strategy wasn’t working. Steve Bannon was steering the White House into historically bad ratings, epic ineffectiveness, and declining power at home and abroad.
Throwing Steve Bannon overboard isn’t an inside baseball play. It’s a matter of survival.
from Daily Kos http://ift.tt/2orM8R5
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