Home and Hillary Clinton administration. Indeed, he was one of the rare republicans there and the only, or one of the very few, populist conservatives. Thats strange, since Populist Conservatism is the platform his boss ran on. Like trumpet candidate, bannon was willing to criticize big republican donors in their ideological stranglehold in a corrupt g. O. P. Establishment. Hes able to break with orthodoxy and big and Dramatic Ways Con for higher taxes, better infrastructure, fewer pointless wars Around The World, and more. He understood that the countrys greatest crisis isnt robert e lee statues but the steady economic and moral decline of its once robust middleclass. Not surprisingly, traders on wall street cheered when he got fired this afternoon. The dow shut up 100 points on the news. Lobbyists in washington will be celebrating late into the night. The funny thing is, that in some important ways, steve bannon was more traditionally liberal than the liberals who spent the last
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of white supremacy so that people came together under the are y rubric and banner of hate of american ideals at its best. on one hand it proved black people weren t making stuff up. oh, you must be out of order here and said something wrong to the policeperson, you must have done something to provoke an outrageous response or the pulling of a gun and the lodging of a bullet in your body. no. we often saw that police people were hyperaggressive to african-american and latinx people and as a result of that there was the real revelation of trauma in this country. on the other hand when we saw charlottesville and how the internet was able to organize them, we see it s a both and not an either/or. how culturally significant has the controversy, the continuing controversy surrounding colin kaepernick been? well, it s enormously important. colin kaepernick is an american hero and iconic figure in so
who unearthed weapons, body armor and history of online ranks against blacks and transgender people. some even appearing to threaten the fbi, itself. among his greatest hits, a facebook riff in solidarity with president trump s alleged comments about s-hole countries. 24 hours later in ohio, the home of another white nationalist was raided by the fbi after he allegedly made violent threats against a jewish community center. three years after attending the unite the right rally that made charlottesville, virginia, a shorthand for racist violence. once again, authorities found multiple rifles along with anti-semitic propaganda. and that same day in seattle, a maryland neo nazi was arrested for allegedly harassing a
appointments are either unfilled, people have stepped down or they ve been filled by people who have a direct almost antagonistic relationship with the department that they head. and so we ve seen this happen over and over again with the president. i think going back to the poll, 2016 and 2017, those were years when we saw charlottesville. right. with the comments that there were very good people on both sides. we saw the death of philando castile, very public killings of black americans caught on video, so protests of black lives matter. so this idea that the president is going tbe hurt by this, i wonder by whom. we can t ignore the fact these have been consistent racial elements that have shown up throughout the years. well, i think that the answer may be, christina, people keep saying that he s playing to his base which is limited because he s not ever gotten to 50% in favorable polling, favorable rating in polling. but isn t the political danger,
they are. they are white. they rptd black voaren t black shaw charlottesville asaw charlottesville and other things that donald trump has done. they were s-hole countries what you they were not white countries? if you are a woman, you see one misogynistic statement and action after another, white males may still be saying that, but it is a shrinking electorate for donald j. trump. bret stevens, thank you very much for coming on this morning. we ll be reading your column in the new york times. still ahead, a new look at beto o rourke, the new yorker is profiling the texas democrat, but the big question, can he revive his presidential campaign? you re watching morning joe. c uh-oh, looks like someone s