bannonism should have overcome anything, including judge perv. the things we re seeing in these down balance on tlot raises, th newtonian physics, the action activated his base but the reaction is even more important in getting the narrow spectrum of issues that turn on the trump/bannon base, things like immigration, and trump s sort of racially inflected, you know, attacks on things like nfl athletes. he s managed to activate entire segments of the population, even if you bring home the entire base, in most places in the country that aren t alabama, that aren t, you know, deep, deep red states, you end up in a situation where the folks on the other side of this equation are so angry and so motivated that he becomes a touchstone. and of course bannonism is even uglier in a lot of ways than what trump does. and so you end up with this situation of, steve bannon would love to destroy the republican
party and replace it with whatever the hell is in his head with some sort of new nationalist/populist party. but folks are rejecting that. and these down ballot raises, republicans, my friends and clients, they re scared to death you re going to get a lunatic ban no bannonite who is out in the orbit of pluto. bannon has basically been the skunk in the garden party. i wish rick would come out and say exactly how he feels. he never says or writes how he feels. i saw you nodding your head though, scott. we talk about the strategy that this administration, especially president trump, and bannon i m sure, realizes the base hate hillary clinton more than they love donald trump. they love donald trump but they hate hillary clinton more. is the problem for the gop that democrats hate trump more than
game is over, i wonder what you mean by that. you say, yes, donald trump gets the base riled up, his rock bottom approval rating means he activates women, african-americans, hispanics, and every demographic group that doesn t fit into his 1950s, or is it 1850s, fantasy of what america looks, works, and feels like. they hate him so much they ll crawl across broken glass to vet against him and any candidate he endorses. does this mean this play to the base strategy has backfired and they ll stop using it, maybe? oh, i doubt they ll stop using it. there s a certain mule-ish stupidity, people get dug in on a strategic approach. the lessons of virginia are very important. the lessons of alabama are important too. you had a petri dish where ban
for this statement by the attorney representing roy moore, clearly the president of the united states trying to raise some doubts there about whether or not roy moore was engaged in improper sexual activity with these young girls. but also it s interesting last night that sean hannity on fox, he said you have 24 hours to come up with an explanation. now within the 24 hours, the attorney representing roy moore has come up with at least something that they regard as raising doubts. right. so as roy moore looks around and sees different pieces of the republican party splinter away from him, he s less concerned about mitch mcconnell pounding his chest and saying get out. mitch mcconnell is the name he made toxic to great success in his rear run against luther strange. so what does fear him a little bit is if there are cracks in that fox news base and the breitbart/bannon base, you know, we re getting word that bannon
it s suburban, high income. it has a low poverty rate. trump did six points worse than romney. now, let s compare the trump base county of wilkes county, north carolina. it s more rural, lower income and a higher poverty rate. guess what? trump did six points better than romney. look the numbers show two different sides of the gop, sides that want different things out of their leaders in washington. our own dante cheaney spoke to those in wilkes county who talked about the need to blow up the gop and replace it with something else. that s how much they want to change it. but the question is what does the new gop look like and can they govern? here in washington, the establishment wing may have a grip on the reins of power but the 2016 results show outside the beltway the trump/bannon base is potent and it s growing as a force. when we come back, four women u.s. senators tell their stories of sexual harassment.