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artappraiser — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 11:30:29 +0000

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Banished by Trump and Breitbart, Steve Bannon Plots His Next Act

By Lachlan Markay & Asawin Suebsaeng @ Daily Beast.com, 9 hours ago

[....] Three sources with knowledge of Bannon’s plans say he intends to launch a new “dark money” nonprofit group in the coming weeks. The organization will be distinct from Bannon’s prior political endeavors, which included documentary films, political data-mining efforts, and more niche political and policy outfits. And unlike virtually all of those efforts, it will not receive funding from his estranged financial backers, Robert and Rebekah Mercer.

There will be some continuity, though. The new organization will focus on Bannon’s longtime pet issues: U.S. policy toward China and the Gulf region, immigration, and foreign trade [....]

With Bannon Gone, the GOP Scrambles for an Agenda

By Tina Nyugen @ The Hive @ VanityFair.com, 8 hours ago

[....] “Now we can focus on the movement,” one Breitbart staffer told my colleague Gabriel Sherman, saying Bannon had become a distraction. “He never sought to make friends,” agreed an editor at a competing conservative publication when I asked about the fallout. “He never sought to band together with anyone. He lived his life by rejecting everything, including the people he should have been in league with.” But what the populist-nationalist movement and its league of acolytes stands for remains somewhat nebulous. While Trump has always been the animating spirit of Trumpism, Bannon harnessed and directed its energies toward specific targets. His infamous whiteboard of policy goals never really went anywhere, but at least they provided an outline for Trump’s chaotic presidency.

What Republican leaders will pursue in 2018, without their nationalist bogeyman at the door, is even less obvious. Over the weekend, party elders—Mitch McConnell, his House counterpart Paul Ryan, Steve Scalise, and countless others—had huddled at Camp David with the president to address the agenda for the coming year. As they emerged from their discussions for a press conference on Saturday, there didn’t seem to be a good answer [....]

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artappraiser — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 09:06:17 +0000

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