Bannon's move to purge GOP may backfire

The Hill ^ | October 17th, 2017 | BY BRENT BUDOWSKY

[Mariner]

While President Trump claims that his relations with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have never been better and while Stephen K. Bannon continues his war against McConnell and a long list of Republican Senators, we will learn whether Bannon is fronting for Trump or acting against him.

If Bannon does not end his attacks against incumbent GOP senators, we will know that he is colluding with the president, who is dividing Republicans — and all Americans — against each other and endangering GOP control of the Senate.

In the 10th month of the Trump presidency, the Republican Congress still has not passed one major piece of legislation proposed by the Republican president, public disapproval of Congress stands at levels that should be alarming to all incumbent Republican senators, and the president and GOP leaders in the House and Senate all suffer from abnormally high levels of disapproval.

Bannon is bidding to become the most powerful Republican in America by seeking to promote primary challenges against key Republicans in Congress, including possible primary challenges against every incumbent Republican senator running for reelection in 2018 except Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).

[Alberta's Child]

Every point I've made about the 2016 election results in Pennsylvania is based on a very detailed analysis of the Trump and Toomey victories that was published some weeks after the election and posted right here on FreeRepublic. I was following Salena Zito's reporting on the 2016 campaign long before most people here probably even heard of her.

The "facts" and "local perspective" suggest that it is far more likely that Trump won on Toomey's coattails, not vice versa. Trump was running as the Republican nominee in a state that hadn't voted for a Republican presidential candidate in decades. Toomey was running as the incumbent U.S. Senator.

[itsahoot]

We know that 66 million people are out of their mind...

You might have noticed, that weekend news declares we now have 60 million immigrants.

[itsahoot]

You're not winning on another candidate's "coattails" if you attract different voters than he did.

Would they have won if Trump voters had not vote for them? Not likely. Trump attracted a lot of disaffected democrats and the non voting block of independents.

I said all along that Trump won mostly because he was not one of them.

[Alberta's Child]

I agree with you, but my original point on PA in 2016 was that Trump and Toomey had very different paths to victory. In fact, the whole PA 2016 story is so remarkable that it should be a subject of political science textbook case studies for years.

[Antoninus]

Wait—Republicans have control of Congress? Really? Could have fooled me...

[sarge83]

Agreed! We have tried working within with the establishment and it is locked down tight. If you are not in the club you will not be allowed to do anything of significance.

The only thing they understand is power and losing their power scares them. The GOP as constituted is as bad as the Democrats, they are one in the same except for who gets to control the agenda, that is always the Democrats prerogative and they will not cede that control. They might share the money and graft with the GOP but never the agenda.

If the Republican lose the senate in 18, it’s on the establishments head but they will never accept responsibility for their actions, liberals never do.

[Sir Napsalot]

Why does a Brent Budowsky (a person described as liberal, from his wiki page) of The Hill worry and warn us about a GOP purge backfire?

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