In the second COMMENTARY Magazine podcast of the week, the hosts discuss Steve Bannon by the avatar of his movement: Donald Trump. Clearly, the damaging quotes Bannon provided to the journalist Michael Wolff are worth taking seriously, even if the rest of the book is dubious. Finally, the hosts dive into the evolution of the Trump administration from populism to conventional Republicanism, and how that impacts the immediate future.

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  1. Otterton Inactive
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    I appreciate these guys thoughts, but they are giving far too much credibility to Wolff’s book.  Donald Trump and his team didn’t want to win?  The evidence for it is that his wife cried?  They are willing to acknowledge some of the conservative wins from the past year and yet give zero credit to the president for any of them except maybe Jerusalem.  I agree that the president has undermined himself with needless controversies.  The tweets, the exaggerations, or in some cases lies.  They are absolutely worth criticizing, but listening to this podcast you would think it’s been a train wreck of a year and it’s only going to get worse.

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  2. bill.deweese Inactive
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    Respectfully, this was the most painful podcast episode to listen to ever. Like. Ever.

    I’ve been listening for a while, a year or more, and this ranks right after Hillary’s “What Went Wrong” tour in navel pondering and whining.

    Check the calendar, Trump won, and if you are paying any attention in December/January, he’s still winning.

    To discuss the merits of the Bannon rise and fall, the likelihood of a lot of the assertions of the book being true or false, and the impact to the Trump Administration are all well and good.   There’s a place for Never-Trumpism in this world, (Refer to folks like Jonah Goldberg for a good reference model),  but to spend the excruciatingly long minutes you did questioning 2016 results, the viability of Trump, and armchair quarterbacking of his state mind/health on a clinical level in the midst of this discussion was mind-numbingly bizarre.

     

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  3. Lazy_Millennial Inactive
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    bill.deweese (View Comment):
    the viability of Trump, and armchair quarterbacking of his state mind/health on a clinical level in the midst of this discussion was mind-numbingly bizarre.

    Because nothing says “A+ mental health” like insisting you’re a “stable genius.” Totally bizarre how these guys devoted time to this subject. Must be Trump derangement syndrome. Darn NeverTrumpers

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