With or without Bannon, Trump will likely get a lot worse. Here's what to watch for next.

[DonViejo]

By Greg Sargent August 21 at 10:31 AM

Now that Stephen K. Bannon has been booted from the White House, the political press is salivating at the prospect of a public struggle between Bannon as outsider and the “globalists” who remain inside the White House. Bannon now rails that his ouster means the Trump presidency as he conceived of it is “over,” and vows to use Breitbart to pressure the administration into hewing to the “economic nationalist” agenda that (he maintains) the globalists may now derail.

But looming in the near future are some major flash points that will test whether Bannon’s departure actually heralds any kind of new direction for President Trump. Here’s a partial rundown:

Arizona speech. Trump is set to hold a rally Tuesday night in Arizona. That was the setting for the festival of hate, lies and xenophobia otherwise known as his main campaign speech on immigration. Little has changed since: Trump recently embraced a plan to slash legal immigration and in the process has recently amplified more lies about the impact that low-skilled immigration has on U.S. workers and about the degree to which immigrants drain welfare benefits. If you hear more of these lies about immigration tomorrow — and in coming days — we’ll see little has changed post-Bannon.

New rhetoric about race. Meanwhile, some Republicans have urged Trump to use the Arizona rally to sound a conciliatory, unifying tone, after his refusal to unambiguously condemn white supremacy in the wake of the Charlottesville violence. But Bannon internally urged Trump not to back down on this point, arguing that he shouldn’t capitulate to pressure from the media. What Trump says tomorrow will tell us a lot.

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[dalton99a]

1. Kick.

[Grammy23]

2. I think the next weeks will be important indicators of how tRump plans to

conduct business, following the screw ups of the past few months. Not that tRump is capable of "planning" his way out of a wet paper bag. But still, there may be some type of game plan on how he can try to stop the bleeding of his beloved base away from their Dear Leader.

All they asked was, "Give him a chance." So now he has had a chance of some months and it has been one failure and embarrassing thing after another. He has HAD a chance, given that he promised massive change on DAY ONE. It might be starting to dawn on them that he is unable to do what he claimed he would do. Whether you blame others (media, Democrats, etc) or you put the blame on him and his cabinet, things are not getting done. He tries to turn signing statements, executive orders into real big deals, but they are nibbling around the edges of what he promised.

So even HE realizes he needs to send out a message to his base. More promises and more blame to heap on anyone but himself. He was able to reach them last year with big promises and scorn for those he blamed for the current state of affairs. So we'll see how he appeals to them given the current Climate. One thing you can be sure about: he will never accept the blame for his failures to make good on campaign promises.

[MFM008]

3. As far as this Nazi

Loving, KKK supporting, woman hating, vile lump of DNA is concerned. ...
Drop dead.

[ismnotwasm]

4. Whatever he does

It will be a quasi-coherent clusterfuck.

[MLAA]

6. Ismnotwasm speaks the truth! 😄

[Flaleftist]

5. Maybe someone helped write a more unifying speech, but

I don't think that is what his audience is going to want. I expect him to go off script again to appease his audience.