Steve Bannon's vile threats show the GOP's radicalization is getting worse

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Greg Sargent
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Two ugly new moves from Steve Bannon show GOP radicalization is getting worse:

* Bannon says GOP Senate candidate in PA in 2022 must be "full MAGA"

* He's hatching a plot to make Trump House Speaker to impeach Biden

My latest, on what this all means:

Opinion | Steve Bannon’s vile threats show the GOP’s radicalization is getting worse
The GOP civil war is intensifying, and Trump's big lie is at the center of it all.
washingtonpost.com
8:42 AM · Feb 19, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/19/steve-bannon-toomey-seat-trump/

A raft of new developments shows that the GOP civil war over Donald Trump’s legacy is intensifying. A top Senate Republican has now suggested that candidates in the former president’s mold are unelectable. A Never Trump group just launched ads backing up Republicans who dared to condemn Trump for inciting the insurrection.

Meanwhile, the pro-Trump side keeps mobilizing. Efforts to censure those anti-Trump apostate Republicans are gaining steam. Former White House adviser Reince Priebus is mulling a run for Wisconsin governor on the chief selling point that he’d have Trump’s support.

Into this mayhem has stepped Stephen K. Bannon, who is as attracted to Trump-fueled chaos as insects are to rotting corpses. Trump’s former adviser is now elevating his profile as spokesman for the pro-Trump wing in a way that usefully illuminates the ugly depths of the GOP’s ongoing radicalization.

But the contours of this radicalization also impose an obligation on Democrats — to ensure that nothing impairs a full accounting into Trump’s most recent crime against the country, the effort to incite the violent overthrow of U.S. democracy.

Bannon has entered the fray on two fronts.

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[msfiddlestix]

1. I feel like I've read that the Pardon for Bannon

didn't "cover" every crime he could have and could be still charged with. I don't remember where I read that. I felt like ok cool. he's going to be dealt with by the justice department soon.

maybe it was just some fantasy or dream i had. I just don't recall.

[Thekaspervote]

6. NY says they could charge him..sure hope they do

[msfiddlestix]

7. Do you recall roughly what those charges are, or related to?

[Thekaspervote]

8. Similar or the same as what he was pardoned for.

[liberalmuse]

2. Most of these traitors would not be in the spotlight if it weren't for "It"

I won't say the name. "It" put people in positions of power and invited complete nutters to the White House and now they have a megaphone.

[SergeStorms]

3. May Steve Bannon...

contract Rush Limbaugh disease post haste.

[kysrsoze]

4. Dump as Speaker of the House? Such petty babies. These nazis need to be jailed.

[Bluethroughu]

5. This why they need to be rounded up charged and sit

In prison. It does not look like a Banana Republic because we prosecute traitors.
Trump should be at the top of the list.

In fact I would have a criminal division looking for the insurrectionists and another looking for the inciting group along with the ones who organized and funded it.

Bad Bannon fits somewhere in both groups.

[Thekaspervote]

9. This is the kind of shit they will pull if they take back the house.

The revenge of “it.”