Posted on 11/18/2016 2:14:36 PM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
In late summer when I went up to see Steve Bannon, then recently named CEO of the Donald Trump presidential campaign, in his office at Trump Tower in New York, he outlined a preposterous-sounding scenario. Trump, he said, would do surprisingly well among women, Hispanics and African-Americans, in addition to working men, and hence take Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan — and therefore the election. On Nov. 15, when I went back to Trump Tower, Bannon, promoted by the president-elect to chief strategist for the incoming administration, and by the media as the official symbol of all things hateful and virulent about the coming Trump presidency, said, as matter-of-factly as when he first sketched it out for me, "I told you so."
The liberal firewall against Trump was, most of all, the belief that the Republican contender was too disorganized, outlandish, outré and lacking in nuance to run a proper political campaign. That view was only confirmed when Bannon, editor of the outlandish and outré Breitbart News Network, took over the campaign in August. Now Bannon is arguably the most powerful person on the new White House team, embodying more than anyone the liberals' awful existential pain and fury: How did someone so wrong — not just wrong, but inappropriate, unfit and "loathsome," according to The New York Times — get it so spot-on right?
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...
“outré “
Perfect, that’s just how they see him.
Good article!
Such magical prose.
Interesting read.
He’s really an interesting figure - so glad the Left is terrified of him!
That was an excellent read, and I feel I understand who Bannon is now. Boy, this day just keeps getting better and better.
“I am,” he says, with relish, “Thomas Cromwell in the court of the Tudors.”
He is not gonna get wrapped around the axle on deficits. He wants a full steam ahead infrastructure.program.
Well-written article! Thanks for posting.
Since when is that conservative.
Thomas Cromwell was executed for treason. Just saying.
Not only did we dodge a huge bullet with Hillary, but we might have elected a man who can literally change the world! An infrastructure program that will rebuild this country and get working class people back to work? 40% of blacks and hispanics voting for his reelection? Wow, I’m just stunned at what we can accomplish, way beyond what I even imagined. As a Puerto Rican who voted for trump, and I have family who voted for trump in Florida, I can’t tell you how proud we are to have trump as president!
Bannon is driven and the author left out he did the Palin movie, the undefeated.
Wow, it’s so uncommon to see relatively unbiased reporting on anybody on the right. Very refreshing. Who’d have thought they’d see the day the Hollywood Reporter surpassed the bulk of the “blue chip” newspapers on interviewing without turning it into a puff or hit piece?
This article is a great read. Long but worth while.
Very interesting insights. The part about infrastructure I found surprising.
Oh, that's even WORSE in the mind of liberals!
A trillion dollars won't build much.
The Big Dig in Boston cost $25 billion; Cali's bullet train is now estimated at $100 billion and rising rapidly, just two proects would consume over 1/8 of the trillion.
Do you remember Obama's $800 Billion stimilus and it's shovel-ready projects?
Kool-Aid, whether bought from store A or store B, is still Kool-Aid.
He has Seinfeld money. In a way if it wasn’t for “socialist” Rob Reiner then Donald Trump would not be president today : )
Rob Reiner explains how Steve Bannon got all that Seinfeld money
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/17/rob-reiner-on-steve-bannon-getting-rich-off-seinfeld-it-makes-me-sick.html
“It’s crazy,” reflected Reiner. “When I first heard about it, it made me sick. It makes me sick.
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