Posted on 06/11/2017 4:55:53 PM PDT by upchuck
The Trump team had known for months that, far from getting even a reasonably fair shake from the Fake News media (and even conservative media), they would face the most blistering, unrelenting, baseless and usually cowardly attacks of any Presidential administration since Abraham Lincolns. Team Trump knew that the only hope the Democrats had of stopping the Trump agenda was the Russian collusion story, concocted immediately after Hillary Clintons loss to explain away her pathetic and horrid campaign. Moreover, Team Trumpand here Im largely speaking of Steve Bannon and Stephen Millerfully understood Alinsky-ism and the tactic of isolating people and programs to destroy them one at a time. Even before the inauguration, Bannon had a massive white board with strategic rollouts during the first days, not just weeks, and they were all over the map. Everything from regulatory rollback, ending the mandate in Obamacare, elevated levels of vetting refugees, a travel ban, tax relief, new arrangements with alliesthese were all in place when I visited Trump Tower just before the Inauguration.
How do you like how were flooding the zone? Bannon asked me. Indeed that perfectly described it. The initiatives were so varied, so widespread, that none could be isolated without giving up on all the others, and therefore, none could be attacked with Alinsky tactics.
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