Posted on 11/13/2016 2:08:14 PM PST by monkapotamus
Bannon responded to the position, saying, “I want to thank President-elect Trump for the opportunity to work with Reince in driving the agenda of the Trump Administration.”
“We had a very successful partnership on the campaign, one that led to victory,” Bannon added. “We will have that same partnership in working to help President-elect Trump achieve his agenda.”
“It is truly an honor to join President-elect Trump in the White House as his Chief of Staff,” Priebus stated of the annoucement. “I am very grateful to the President-elect for this opportunity to serve him and this nation as we work to create an economy that works for everyone, secure our borders, repeal and replace Obamacare and destroy radical Islamic terrorism. He will be a great President for all Americans.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I don’t know much about Mr. Bannon except that he has been invaluable to the Trump campaign. That is enough for me.
GO, President Trump, GO!
Variety in personalities-will mean Trump gets varying opinions and advice. I think this is good....some insider experience is needed when you have a non politician coming into the top spot....Prebus earned his job when he had to herd all those RNC factions...
I liked him on Seinfeld. :)
“That’s Gold Jerry!! Gold!!
Excellent!
Maybe I’m totally out of it but I was barely aware of Steve Bannon during the last year. Did he purposely keep out of sight or do I live under a rock? Please inform and give me your opinion (on him - not me!)
Reince is a good man.
Good choice for that job.
Pres. Elect Trump has done a fabulous job with putting together a great campaign team. We can trust his appointments....and if they don’t perform, we know he will get rid of them.
Priebus harnessed recalcitrant Republicans to support Trump, dedicated a lot of RNC resources to his election, and is an effective manager (though not as effective as Kellyanne Conway, IMO.)
And he’s a friend of Ryan’s, so he might be able to help with Congressional relations. (But they already have Pence for that.)
Unfortunately, as Chief of Staff, he’ll probably bring in a lot of Establishemnt Republicans who don’t share — or even see — Trump’s vision, and as Morton Blackwell reminds us, “personnel is policy.”
Really GREAT!!!!
Bannon proudly boasts that he has turned Breitbart into a platform for the alt-right. (I’m sure Andrew Breitbart is turning over in his grave.) The site himself identifies one of the leading thinkers of the alt-right as Richard Spencer. He recommends Spencer.
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/29/an-establishment-conservatives-guide-to-the-alt-right/
“The media empire of the modern-day alternative right coalesced around Richard Spencer”
“In 2010, Spencer founded AlternativeRight.com, which would become a center of alt-right thought.
Alongside other nodes like Steve Sailer’s blog, VDARE and American Renaissance, AlternativeRight.com became a gathering point for an eclectic mix of renegades who objected to the established political consensus in some form or another.”
(Isn’t VDARE banned here at FR? With good reason.)
Spencer and his writers are fans of Dugin.
http://alternative-right.blogspot.com/2013/12/transitioning-from-modernity-review-of.html
http://alternative-right.blogspot.com/2013/12/transitioning-from-modernity-review-of_30.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/altright/comments/4x3fm2/richard_spencerask_me_anything/
“My name is Richard Spencer. I coined the term “Alternative Right”; I write at RadixJournal.com (and some other places), organize NPI conferences, and edit Washington Summit Publishers and Radix books.”
“Constitutional conservatives can’t stand the alt-right. Conservatives — real conservatives — believe that only a philosophy of limited government, God-given rights and personal responsibility can save the country. And that creed is not bound to race or ethnicity. Broad swaths of the alt-right, by contrast, believe in a creed-free, race-based nationalism, insisting, among other things, that birth on American soil confers superiority. The alt-right sees limited-government constitutionalism as passé; it holds that only nationalist populism on the basis of shared tribal identity can save the country. It’s a movement shot through with racism and anti-Semitism.”
“As one of its own, Richard Spencer, explained: ‘Breitbart has elective affinities with the alt-right, and the alt-right has clearly influenced Breitbart. In this way, Breitbart has acted as a ‘gateway’ to alt-right ideas and writers.’”
(BTW, Bannon is an ex-Goldman Sachs banker.)
Dugin rejects the Enlightenment (the foundation of the Founders’ thinking) and declares “the West” to be the enemy. Spencer writes articles favorable to Dugin, and Bannon favors Spencer.
Now, please note that I do not think this reflects President-elect Trump’s views, although I am a bit disturbed by Donald Jr.’s offhand remark that hsi father believes in “racehorse theory.” but as I noted before (quoting Morton Blackwell, on of the conservative movement’s best strategists), “personnel is policy.”
Bannon will most likely try to bring in as many of his “alt-right” allies as he can, and that will make the new Administration something I don’t think we or Trump intended it to be.
You have to be careful with whom you stand.
I was referring to a bad comedian character on Seinfeld, whose last name sounded like Bannon.
Hope I’m not wrong about that :)
Rience is a good guy. I got no complaints.
I dont think he was NEARLY ruthless enough for the title he held, but that wasn’t his fault.
I will miss him on Breitebart in the morning.
Now the RNC needs a new chairman
More opportunity for Trump to shape the party
I particularly like Rinse. Trump still has the Electoral College to win, and while it all looks fine now, if Trump does step in it, having Rinse to help him get out will be useful.
Putting Priebus on as Chief or Staff is NOT a good sign.
“That’s the best, Jerry! The best!”
Trump, as usual, is firing on all 12 cylinders.
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