sirmoonie wrote on Aug 19
th, 2017 at 9:54am:
Those are some good conflationaries, PoiDog. What about Mormons? They don't like black people, but they get a free pass because of their religious status. If Charlottians just attributed their pro-Germany rallies to some of J. Christ's written scripturals, no one would be able to criticize them. Not even a Deacon or a Vicar!
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/after-the-bannon-presidency-1503096858" After the Bannon Presidency "
" Trump can’t govern with a Breitbart coalition. Does he see that? "
By The Editorial Board
" The most important fact about Stephen Bannon’s resignation Friday from the White House staff is that he essentially fired himself.
His departure gives President Trump a chance to revive his listing fortunes, if he draws the right lessons.The triggering event for the dismissal was Mr. Bannon’s interview with the left-wing American Prospect in which he trashed his colleagues and undermined Mr. Trump’s policy toward North Korea. After that show of insubordination, either Mr. Bannon had to go or Mr. Trump might have lost his new chief of staff John Kelly, among others. Mr. Bannon has been telling people privately that he never expected to last even this long, so maybe he was trying to get fired to fulfill his prophesy.
Mr. Bannon will get historical credit for getting Mr. Trump elected, joining the campaign late with Kellyanne Conway and giving it more discipline and focus. At the White House, he was among the advocates for Mr. Trump’s two main achievements—deregulation and Neil Gorsuch’s elevation to the Supreme Court.
Yet by any measure the rest of the Bannon Presidency was a colossal failure. The former Breitbart publisher was a major source of White House dysfunction as he brought his brawling campaign style indoors. His Manichean, almost apocalyptic view of politics—us vs. them, patriots vs. “globalists,” America has only a short time to avoid self-destruction—might work in an election campaign. It isn’t suitable to building a coalition to govern.
Mr. Bannon presided over some of Mr. Trump’s biggest debacles, starting with the rushed and legally unvetted travel ban. That began his Presidency with a needlessly polarizing debate when the White House should have been reaching out to persuadable Democrats and wary Republicans, and it set up Mr. Trump for a legal and political defeat.
Mr. Bannon gets credit in some quarters for focusing on the white working class, but he did so in ways that too often trucked with a white version of identity politics. This has played out in destructive fashion since the Charlottesville riot as Mr. Trump catered too much to Mr. Bannon’s “base” and not to the larger duty of a President to provide unifying moral leadership. Mr. Trump was elected President of the country, not the Breitbart readership.
One irony of Mr. Bannon’s departure is that the same liberal press corps that portrayed him as Darth Sidious are now relishing the prospect that he’ll become an avenger outside the White House. Breitbart reported Friday that Mr. Bannon is returning to the website, presumably backed by Rebekah and Robert Mercer’s money, where he can assail White House aides Gary Cohn and H.R. McMaster, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and anyone else who favors U.S. global leadership. The press corps will silently cheer him on.
But what else is new? His allies have been doing the same for months while Mr. Bannon sat in the White House. It’s hard to see how he can do any more damage outside it, assuming that is his plan, and it may not be if he still wants Mr. Trump to succeed. One problem he’ll have on the outside is that millions of Trump supporters have now seen that the Bannon style of politics has failed.
Some conservative groups are lamenting his departure as a defeat for their policies in White House councils, but that is vastly overstated. There are many other conservatives remaining in the White House, including Vice President Mike Pence’s staff, Mr. Cohn’s policy team, chief economist Kevin Hassett, and Neomi Rao at the budget office, among others.
The anti-immigration, anti-trade right will also still be represented by Stephen Miller, the former Jeff Sessions aide. But Mr. Bannon’s departure reduces the chances of a catastrophic pseudo-populist economic mistake, like raising tax rates or igniting a global trade war.
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The larger question is what Mr. Trump has learned from the failures of his first seven months. He seems to want less internal feuding, which is why he brought in Mr. Kelly, the former Marine general. But Mr. Trump often contributes to that feuding with his inability to stick to a decision, such as on troops in Afghanistan. Mr. Trump wants better communication, but his ill-considered tweets and unplanned riffs blow up any communication planning. He still traffics in false claims and divisive rhetoric—and that’s against his allies.
Senator Bob Corker (R., Tenn.) and Newt Gingrich have both warned Mr. Trump this week that he needs to be far more disciplined if he wants to have any chance of success. Mr. Trump should listen because he is in greater political peril than he understands. Mr. Bannon’s departure will help, but Mr. Trump will also have to heal himself. "