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AlexSFCA

(6,321 posts)
Fri Aug 18, 2017, 12:49 PM Aug 2017

while if true it's a positive development but

let's not take the bait and think that by firing bannon, trump is somehow redeeming himself. In or out of WH, bannon remains a powerful alt right figure that can continue doing essentially the same thing. Nothing prevents bannon from continue advising trump after firing, he just won't be paid directly for it by the government. The agenda is set, the mechanisms put into place towards fascism are already in motion and many on auto-pilot. Not even alt righters can predict the outcome, that's why they continue reffering to 'trump train' which means train with no breaks.

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