Bannon: It’s a ‘Season of War’ Against the GOP Establishment

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said on Saturday at the Value Voter Summit that “it’s a season of war against a GOP establishment” that won’t fully support President Donald Trump and his “America First” agenda that the people voted for in 2016.

“To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven. A time to rend and a time to sow. A time to be silent and a time to speak out. A time of war and a time of peace," Bannon said, echoing a famous Biblical passage from the book of Ecclesiastes. “But there’s a time and season for everything, and right now it’s a season of war against a GOP establishment."

“This is not my war. This is our war," Bannon told the crowd. "And you all didn’t start it. The establishment started it. But I will tell you one thing — you all are going to finish it.”

Corker, who has chosen not to run for reelection in 2018, won liberals' praise when he took on Trump after the president criticized him via Twitter. In response, Corker said the White House was like an "adult day care center" and told The New York Times that Trump was leading the country "on the path to World War III."

“What Corker said, he gave up the game. He said, ‘Hey, there’s only one or two senators up here that have any respect or admiration for President Trump. The rest of them all talk like I do behind closed doors,'" Bannon said.

Trump's former chief strategist posited the idea that Corker chose not to run again because he feared being primaried, especially in the wake of populist former Judge Roy Moore's Republican primary victory against GOP establishment member Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.) in late September.

“And [Corker] knew the good men and women in Alabama were holding [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell accountable down there and they were going to hold Bob Corker accountable, too," Bannon said. “These folks are coming for you. The day of taking a few nice, conservative votes and hiding is over.”

"It’s no longer acceptable to come and pat you on the head and tell you 'Everything is going to be fine — just get these guys in office.' Those days are over," Bannon added. "We need to move with urgency. The president of the United States deserves respect and deserves their support.”

There's still time for vulnerable senators who fear being defeated in primaries to have a "mea culpa" moment, Bannon said.

"You can come to a stick and condemn Senator Corker, and you can come to a stick, a microphone, and say, ‘I am not going to vote for Mitch McConnell for majority leader,'" Bannon said. "And you can come to a stick and you can say I’m going to do away with the filibuster so the president can implement his program.”

Noting that "the president needs our support more than ever," Bannon pleaded with the American people to drive and support the conservative-populist agenda Trump campaigned on so successfully while holding their elected officials accountable.

“We’re in the valley of decision. This is the fourth great turning in American history. We’ve had the revolution, we’ve had the Civil War, we’ve had the Great Depression and World War II. This is the fourth," Bannon said.

Although it may take 10-20 years "to go through this" and come out victorious on the other side, the former White House chief strategist said there is always hope.

"We’re either going to be the country that was bequeathed to previous generations and to you, or we’re going to be something else," Bannon said. "And in that valley of decision, it’s not about [House Freedom Caucus Chairman] Mark Meadows and Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Mike Lee, and all the great leaders of the conservative movement, Vice President Pence, Laura Ingraham, Steve Bannon, Seb Gorka. The burden’s on you. The burden’s on your shoulders.”

""We’re either going to be the country that was bequeathed to previous generations and to you, or we’re going to be something else," . . . valley of decision . . . ." - Steve Bannon

He's correct.

Below are the words of the Author of our Declaration of Independence and President of the U. S., Thomas Jefferson, in his 1801 Inaugural Address. Jefferson laid out what might be considered to be an appropriate description of the philosophy and role of an American presidency:

(Excerpt, "Our Ageless Constitution," p. xiv, reformatted)
"Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation;
- entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them;
- enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man;
- acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter
—with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people?
- Still one thing more, fellow-citizens—a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
- This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
"About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you,
- it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations.
- Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political;
- peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none;
- the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies;
- the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad;
- a jealous care of the right of election by the people—a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided;
- absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism;
- a well disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them;
- the supremacy of the civil over the military authority;
- economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened;
- the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith;
- encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid;
- the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason;
- freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected.
These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety." - Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural

Bannon, who left the White House in mid-August before returning to Breitbart, took particular aim at outgoing Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) for demeaning Trump. Pointing to Corker and other members of the GOP establishment, Bannon warned that the American people “are coming for you.”
“To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven. A time to rend and a time to sow. A time to be silent and a time to speak out. A time of war and a time of peace," Bannon said, echoing a famous Biblical passage from the book of Ecclesiastes. “But there’s a time and season for everything, and right now it’s a season of war against a GOP establishment."
“This is not my war. This is our war," Bannon told the crowd. "And you all didn’t start it. The establishment started it. But I will tell you one thing — you all are going to finish it.”
Bannon can do far more damage to the Democrats/Rinos/Never Trumpsters from outside the WH...
The mediots, rioting liberals and liberal mayors, who allowed the rioting are in for some fun times from Bannon.
There will be zero mercy on the Rinos, mediots and Never Trumpsters in Congress and Rino's like this B$tch Mitch in Bannon’s new op center.
Bannon has now entered a Free Fire Zone and will take Zero Prisoners!

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