Posted on 08/23/2017 3:44:50 PM PDT by Rockitz
Steve Bannon, the figure most frequently touted as the Machiavellian mastermind behind President Donald Trump’s connection with his populist base, left the White House late last week.
But his absence has shown no signs of hampering the support Trump enjoys among those core supporters. All indication in the past five days has been that those voters like Trump for Trump and it makes little to no difference who stands beside him inside the White House.
Rhetorically speaking, the president’s marathon address in Phoenix yesterday—in which he bashed the media, coyly suggested he’d pardon Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and threatened to shut down the government over long-promised border wall funding—was peak form. It reminded Trump supporters, after a disappointing Monday night in which the president promised to put more troops on the ground in Afghanistan, about the person they voted for.
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Beyond the anecdotal evidence, some early polling from the Trump campaign’s top pollster, Tony Fabrizio, also underscores that Trump voters seem not to care that Bannon is out of the White House.
According to polling conducted by his firm, some 29 percent of people in an August survey of 1,500 self-described GOP or GOP leaning voters nationally, viewed Trump more favorably after Bannon was axed and only 6 percent viewed him less favorably. Some 48 percent indicated that it didn’t change their opinion at all.
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Bannon is/was not the conscience of the Trump administration. Trump is
We’ll see. I hope so.
I don’t really care about Bannon personally, but I care deeply for the agenda Bannon championed.
If Trump goes soft on removing illegal aliens he will lose support.
If he does not get a barrier built he will lose support.
I’m concerned about that too, but it certainly didn’t affect my support of the President. He’s got good instincts. That’s why I voted for him. If he decided Bannon had to go, I trust he had to go.
Bannon was a fraud, like Glenn Beck, Ted Cruz, and so many others, who wanted you to believe such things. But it is utterly unsupported by the facts, nor even by their own records and relationship with the truth, going back long before Trump became President.
Now these worthless little buggers, because Trump made the mistake of putting a former Cruzer into his White House, are going to be telling us all for the next 2 months that Trump isn't a real conservative. Just last night, these damn Cruzers were on threads telling us that Trump was about to bail on the freaking border wall.
Damn these annoying bastards! Damn them! The annoyance levels, I must say, are very high!
Let's be honest. Bannon was too constricted in the WH. He belongs on the outside, fighting the Left. He is not a policy wonk, a Republican "strategist" and he's damn sure isn't a Karl Rove.
I have no problems with Bannon leaving the WH, because I knew he was there to guide Trump through the beginning of his Presidency.
But if you listen to Bannon and Breitbart, while they were pushing puff pieces on Ted Cruz, lying to us all about his record on immigration and informing us that Trump wasn't a real conservative, they would have you believe that without Bannon, Trump would have lost to Hillary, and without Bannon, Trump would have continued on being the liberal he apparently was for the entire year prior!
The Liestream Media should be quivering in their boots. Steven Bannon is in the cockpit and will be doing carpet bombings daily of the rat holes. The White House armed him with weapons and he is locked and loaded up to deliver the fire and fury.
I don’t care about Bannon one way or the other. I do care that there are more and more liberals and less and less conservatives in the administration.
I have come to the same conclusion.
This is a silly article. I don’t think Trump supporters or much of anyone seriously believed Bannon was Trump’s conscience, or the architect of his populous positions since Trump had been stating those positions for years before most people ever heard of Bannon.
The concern I and some others have is that Trump has fewer and fewer key members of his cabinet and WH staff who actually support the positions that won the election. That’s not a good situation and all the spinning and silliness about nth degree chess don’t change what is simply not a good situation.
We’ve seen several campaign positions abandoned, or at least shelved. Time will tell.
Bannon didn’t join the campaign until August 2016.
Trump was espousing the theme, the platform long prior to Bannon coming on board. As a matter of fact the ideas that were the campaign promises were what caused Trump to jump from his executives chair to the top of the escalator that night, and declare his candidacy.
Bannon wasn’t a part of that so the conscience of the campaign was Trump.
I haven’t any worries that President Trump will allow himself to be led astray from his personal focus.
The real issue isn’t Bannon. The issue is will Trump start moving left?
Trump is surrounded by moderates and leftists in the White House.
Time will tell if conservatives still have a voice in Trump policy decisions.
And I will judge Trump by his policy decisions, with or without Bannon.
‘Let’s be honest. Bannon was too constricted in the WH. He belongs on the outside, fighting the Left.’
http://truthfeed.com/whoa-bannon-just-unveiled-the-first-weapon-in-his-media-war/103633/
[Spoiler alert: it’s a fidget spinner.]
The fear (or maybe it's the hope) some people have is that Trump is too apt to get distracted and Bannon kept him on message. We'll find out before long if that's true, but sometimes Bannon's advice may not have been for the best (as happened last week).
You don’t think Breitbart helped Trump develop his ideology? I certainly do, which explains why he added Bannon to his campaign and his administration. I do believe Bannon can be effective outside the whitehouse, but I’m worried about who’s whispering in the president’s ear on a daily basis.
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