Click here for an article at The Daily Beast by John Avlon entitled "When Trump Met Mr. Brexit—the Alt-Right Coalition Goes Global." It was written on August 24, not long after the departure of Paul Manafort, Steve Bannon having been named "campaign CEO."
Donald Trump’s inner circle resembles nothing so much as a Bond villain casting call. There’s the exiled Paul Manafort, steely-eyed, hair-dyed, and bathing in blood money. His replacement Steve Bannon is ruler of the alt-right trolls, fanning the flames from his fortified Hollywood villa, known as the Breitbart Embassy. Off in the wings sit Roger Ailes and Roger Stone, the O.G. dirty tricksters, unrepentant Nixonistas still running the “positive polarization” play almost five decades later.
A couple of relevant quotes: Donald Trump tweeted “They will soon be calling me MR. BREXIT!” And Bannon said “Let the grassroots turn on the hate because that’s the ONLY thing that will make them do their duty.” This campaign knows about turning on the hate.
Donald Trump is a symptom of the problem, not its cause. Those Republicans hoping that this election cycle can be dismissed as a bad dream are missing their own culpability in shrinking their base through RINO hunt purges and the elevation of hyper-partisan, smash-and-grab media outlets like Breitbart, which now essentially runs their nominee’s campaign. Partisan media now controls the party.
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