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You Are Either With Trump or You Are Against Him, Says Bannon, as Putin Mayhem Tests Presidents Grip on GOPFor the most part, Trumps outraged, aghast followers-turned-critics have all come home very quickly. Its a play weve all seen before.
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SAM STEIN
07.19.18 9:52 PM ET
Once again, Donald Trump has crossed what had seemed an inviolable political line, and once again his former top strategist Steve Bannon says the party can either follow the new path hes blazing to be victory or be left behind.
Multiple West Wing officials who spoke to The Daily Beast this week, following the presidents widely panned summit with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, compared the mood in the White House to that after other notoriously chaotic episodes of the Trump era. One source half-joked theyd been triggered into a flashback of the Charlottesville atrocity, when the president refused to unequivocally condemn violent Nazis.
The gloom was more pronounced outside the walls of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue where GOP lawmakers and top party fundraisers fretted that the fallout of Helsinkialongside the presidents seeming penchant for damaging political dramacould undermine the partys hopes to retain control of the House.
I dont focus on the things I cant change and I cant change a 70-year-old who is stuck in his way and knows what he wants, said one GOP lawmaker. Asked what he feared the president might do next, the lawmaker added: If I knew what to be concerned about I would be much smarter than I am.
But while numerous GOP lawmakers rushed to distance themselves from the president this past week, Trumps most fervent loyalists circled the wagons. Far from being politically poisonous, Bannon argued, the president represented the partys lone bit of electoral salvation.
These House guys are running around with a very conventional district-by-district plan. This is the way you lose 40 seats. This is Trump and conventional won't work. They are thinking about this the wrong way. This is not a midterm electionthis is Trumps first re-elect, Bannon, Trumps ousted top White House strategist, told The Daily Beast on Thursday.
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'You Are Either With Trump or You Are Against Him,' Says Bannon, as Putin Mayhem Tests President's.. (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jul 2018
OP
Republicans STOPPED giving a shit about the Republic since Ronald Reagan........
ProudMNDemocrat
Jul 2018
#3
atreides1
(16,047 posts)1. That's simple
I'm against him!
And Bannon can go piss up a rope!!!
Efilroft Sul
(3,573 posts)2. AGAINST!
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,498 posts)3. Republicans STOPPED giving a shit about the Republic since Ronald Reagan........
The political moniker REPUBLICAN.....does not carry much weight anymore. They are ANTI-REPUBLIC in word and action.....
Today's GOP believe in TAKING AWAY Social Security, Medidare, Medicaid and not only throwing Grandma off the cliff, but out on the streets with nothing but her clothes. All the while, the few scraping by see their retirements dwindle.
Today's GOP believe that the Super Rich deserve all the breaks, thus taxing the Middle Class and Poor into indentured servitude with no prospects for the future.
Today's GOP would rather women be denied access to safe and legal abortions and Contraception, all the while GUTTING programs that help babies get a healthy start at life as they pinish the woman for having that baby in the first place.
Today's GOP envision a Government that enslaves its people, rather than serve them. Be that with funding for Edudation, Health Care, Infrastructure, to promote exceptional ism and secure our democratic processes.
In a nutshell, today's GOP do not give a shit about Principle, Morality, let alone this country as a whole.
Orangepeel
(13,933 posts)4. You're against him or you are for him.
Republicans elected officials in particular need to speak out or be complicit
superpatriotman
(6,232 posts)5. I am against the entire r party
It's institutions, it's leaders, it's proxies, it's 'news' outlets, it's voters, all of it.
Blue Owl
(49,939 posts)6. Against Trump means against Putin
Sign me up! And fuck you Bannon...
ooky
(8,889 posts)8. Easy choice.