Trump could bring Trumpism down...
Trump was, for Bannon, a modern-day William Jennings Bryan.
Insecurity was soothed by entitlement.
Trump, in Bannon's view, was a chapter, or even a detour, in the Trump revolution, which had always been about weakness in the two major parties. The Trump presidency - however long it lasted - had cr...
He had no interest in precision, or even any ability to be precise.
He wasn’t going to win! Or losing was winning.
Of the many Trump gashes in modern major-power governing, you could certainly drive a Trojan horse through his lack of foreign policy particulars and relationships.
It’s all exaggerated. My exaggerations are exaggerated.
Masher.
The Best and the Brightest
Having attained the unimaginable—bringing a fierce alt-right, antiliberal ethnopopulism into a central place in the White House—Bannon found himself face to face with the untenable: undermined by and...
Trump, in a smart move, picked up his media reputation and relocated it from a hypercritical New York to a more value-free Hollywood, becoming the star of his own reality show, The Apprentice, and emb...
The New York real estate deals were dirty, the Atlantic City ventures were dirty, the Trump airline was dirty, Mar-a-Lago, the golf courses, and the hotels all dirty. No reasonable candidate could hav...
—crowded out most other voices on the subject of whatever new crisis was engulfing the Trump administration. These quotes functioned as something like a stage whisper that Trump could pretend he didn’...
Real estate was the world’s favorite money-laundering currency,
Pushing a proffered glass of wine away—I don’t drink—
All mustaches annoyed Trump,
Theory 2: Trump was part of a less-than-blue-chip (much less) international business set, feeding off the rivers of dubious wealth that had been unleashed by all the efforts to move cash, much of it f...
The daughter will take down the father, said Bannon, in a Shakespearian mood.
The Best and the Brightest. (One of the