Is Bannon Falling On His Sword, Or An Evil Genius?
By Steve Berman | August 17, 2017, 10:59am | @stevengberman Steve Bannon phoned up the editor of a left-wing website, and proceeded to have a conversation about China, North Korea, white nationalism, and internal battles in the Trump administration.
The resulting piece, “Steve Bannon, Unrepentant” went so viral that The American Prospect’s servers keep crashing.
Everyone seems to have a hot take on this interview, and there’s a lot to unpack. So let me first start with why Bannon may have placed the call.
More puzzling is the fact that Bannon would phone a writer and editor of a progressive publication (the cover lines on whose first two issues after Trump’s election were “Resisting Trump” and “Containing Trump”) and assume that a possible convergence of views on China trade might somehow paper over the political and moral chasm on white nationalism.
Is Bannon laying the ground for his own termination? Is he falling on his sword to make the decision easier for Trump to fire him?
A message to Trump?I think it’s more complicated than that. The relationship between Trump and Bannon is one of mutual manipulation. Trump used Bannon to help organize and contain his ugly shock troops, and Bannon used Trump to featherbed Breitbart and his own career. They both used each other very effectively.
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