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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Ah the doom and gloom conservatives who claim the same thing week after week. Last night did not sound like the Globalist neo-cons were in charge, what gives?
What about Monday night?
I think Bannon mostly helped sharpen the campaign message the during final two or three months. And I agree with the many who say that Trump has no firm idealogy, but mostly practical beliefs about what is best for the US as opposed to the beliefs of the globalists.
And Trump had been stating most of his ideas for years, often for a couple of decades before he declared his candidacy.
Last night was sound.
All demoncraps in the White House surrounding President Trump is substance.
Now, last night SOUNDED great. But I am concerned.
We aren’t really upset about this because we know that he
a: Quit
b: Will be fighting in a different role while returning to Breitbart where he did more damage to our enemies
c: Trump isn’t going to have him killed like any leftist would.
Who’s to say Trump isn’t still working with Brannon, what’s to stop him? Maybe Brannon is more useful to him on the outside, publishing and talking on media.
Democrats have the analytical abilities of a fruit fly in heat
I’m all of F&(&Ks and I don’t give a Shiite...
I don’t think Bannon or Trump ever planned for him to stay in the WH after things got going. Bannon is more valuable on the outside.
“I don’t really care about Bannon personally, but I care deeply for the agenda Bannon championed.”
The agenda Bannon championed is the agenda Trump championed for the last 2 years, way before Bannon ever came on board. Trump is the one who risked his political capital when he made building a wall a central campaign issue in June of 2015 (pre Bannon). Before that, conventional wisdom said that such a position was just too toxic to get someone elected. Trump hasn’t waivered in 2 plus years. What makes you think he suddenly will now that Bannon has left the administration?
ZFG. He will be back or making an influence one way or another, count on it.
“The agenda Bannon championed is the agenda Trump championed for the last 2 years, way before Bannon ever came on board.”
This implies Bannon wasn’t championing The Agenda long before Trump settled on it. Bannon produced a documentary on Reagan on 2004, back when Trump was “very pro-choice.”
I thought Bannon was great, about as good a fit with freeper ideology as they come in politics.
I’m a little concerned he left, but I’m not flipping out.
As one Freeper pointed out, what does it matter where Bannon has his desk, he still can advise Trump.
I don’t support Trump any less than before.
well, Bannon looked very promising to me
and i regret his departure from the administration
DJT needs to DRAIN the damned Snake Dept swamp (and the rest of the WashDC swamp too) of all of its Nazi, IslamoNazi and other seditious, dangerous, or disloyal operatives and sympathizers. they are extremely dangerous
in defense, foreign policy and relations, security and intelligence agencies especially dangerous to us there where Obama stuffed, stacked, moved them in
instead, DJT lets Bannon go. wrong move, imho.
Michael Savage and Roger Stone are jealous of Bannon.
Idea men like Bannon can’t last in the political acrimony of Washington. President Trump is in the end a pragmatist and ideology and idealism is not very pragmatic.
Bannon always had value outside the system and maybe he can start up a strong conservative media entity.
Nope. Trump had those views since early 2015. Bannon came on in August 2016.
Trump was Trump before Bannon was involved, and will stay Trump. If you didn’t hear that in his speech last night, you weren’t listening.
Well said. Steve is a friend, but his impatience made it a sure thing he wouldn’t last long. Which is fine.
I forget who said it, but a lot of mid-America does not only not care about the details, they don’t even know the details. You probably have a lot of folks who are vaguely familiar with this news story. They know about wanting a secured border, jobs, etc.
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