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Bannon's Chaos Had No Place at Any White HouseHe had big, destructive plans. Luckily, he had no idea how to execute them.by Jonathan BernsteinAugust 18, 2017, 1:45 PM CDTThe most important thing to know about Steve Bannon, the departing White House "chief strategist," is that he was an amateur. And just as Richard Neustadt tells us that the presidency is no place for amateurs, the same is true for White House senior staffers. The most important thing to know about Donald Trump's first staff is that the actor (and activist) Kal Penn, who was part of yet another advisory group which collapsed on Friday, has more White House experience than Bannon and the following people combined: Former chief of staff Reince Priebus. Former communications directors Anthony Scaramucci and Mike Dubke. Current communications director Hope Hicks. Former and current press secretaries Sean Spicer and Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, whatever it is they do.In fact, leave out the press secretaries and Penn had more White House experience than they had in combined experience in any position in government.That was a formula for disaster that was perfectly predictable. As far as what type of amateur Bannon was? He's best thought of not in terms of whatever goals he might have, but in terms of the means he embraced. He's an amateur Newt Gingrich -- but where Gingrich's operating principle was to blow up specific government institutions in order to achieve some harebrained future utopia, Bannon seems to believe in blowing up the whole nation. Gingrich, alas, was very good at destruction; the House of Representative still suffers from his legacy. Bannon? Much less so.Continued: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-18/bannon-s-chaos-had-no-place-at-any-white-house
