Enjoy re-reading this article about Steve Bannon's "Trumpism without Trump" from two days ago

[EarlG]

Maintaining a safe distance from President Donald Trump and his historic levels of unpopularity even while embracing his controversial rhetoric could be a blueprint for Republicans moving forward, according to his former chief strategist, Steve Bannon.

Such a scenario is currently playing out in Virginia, which will vote for a new governor Tuesday in an election that is widely considered the most important of 2017 and as an early referendum on the president. Trump has become the first sitting president since Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal not to visit the state to campaign in its governor’s race. Yet Republican candidate Ed Gillespie has adopted many of Trump’s hard-line positions, particularly on immigration.

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“He’s closed an enthusiasm gap by rallying around the Trump agenda,” Bannon, who was ousted from his White House role and has since gone on to support a slew of anti-establishment candidates, told The New York Times about Gillespie on Sunday. “And I think the big lesson for Tuesday is that, in Gillespie’s case, Trumpism without Trump can show the way forward. If that’s the case, Democrats better be very, very worried.”

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-bannon-trumpism-virginia-election-702954

The actual result? The largest Democratic margin of victory since 1985.

2017
Northam (D) 54% (approx)
Gillespie (R) 45% (approx)
Winner: D | Margin: 9 points

2013
McAuliffe (D) 47.8%
Cucinelli (R) 45.2%
Winner: D | Margin: 3 points

2009
McDonnell (R) 58.6%
Deeds (D) 41.3%
Winner: R | Margin: 18 points

2005
Kaine (D) 51.72%
Kilgore (R) 45.99%
Winner: D | Margin: 6 points

2001
Warner (D) 52.16%
Earley (R) 47.03%
Winner: D | Margin: 5 points

1997
Gilmore (R) 55.81%
Beyer (D) 42.56%
Winner: R | Margin: 13 points

1993
Allen (R) 58.27%
Terry (D) 40.89%
Winner: R | Margin: 17 points

1989
Wilder (D) 50.14%
Coleman (R) 49.75%
Winner: D | Margin: <1 points

1985
Baliles (D) 55.20%
Durrette (R) 44.79%
Winner: D | Margin: 10 points

[underpants]

1. Boy he really had his finger on the pulse there didn't he?

and he's FROM Richmond and went to Tech



He's just another self promoter trying to make it about strategy and tactics when the biggest element (to me) of 2016 was the constant free advertising the media gave him. From the primaries through the general.

[Pope George Ringo II]

2. And in a mid-term election a few days after a mass shooting

Almost every old white man in the state showed up and voted Republican to save his guns. It was a best-case scenario for the GOP on turnout and motivation, and the GOP still got absolutely massacred. Republicans should be very, very worried.

[brush]

3. Bannon is just a blowhard who thinks he an expert strategist. The country knows better now.

I hope the repugs keep listening to him.

[HipChick]

4. He has the best people..

Glad they are on it..

[MFM008]

5. Another bottle

For Bannon liver.......

[gratuitous]

6. You're right, Mr. Bannon: I'm very, very worried

That you will die of liver failure before you're brought to justice.

[FakeNoose]

7. Bannon can't BS his way out of a paper bag

... he has quickly become irrelevant. Just like Karl Rove and several others.
Let's all decide from this day forward to ignore everything this man says.