The Reality of Living In A Regime Is the Question: Now What?

[VOX]

60. Bannon did the classic gish-gallop stunt: thumping Maher's head with so much shit so quickly...

that Maher, falling for the stunt like a guy who forgot his “Bannon 101,” searched through the evaporating fog of semi-coherent, dystopian word-salad dumped on him, scanning his flat-footed noggin in order to fashion some response.

I think Bannon, like his pupil Trump, also had some pharmaceutical assistance in advance of his appearance. He came off a bit like Dennis Hopper’s character in “Apocalypse Now,” sounding deep and heady, but lost, like everyone else.

Which is not to underestimate Bannon’s threat as a blunt-object threat to democratic institutions. He’s fomented the destruction of democracy in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Brazil and more. He may not be the head of the serpent, but he seems close.

Maher was in cruise-control mode, instead of *knowing* that Bannon wasn’t going to “discuss issues” in a gentlemanly manner.