Paul Krugman Issues A Warning About What We All Know Is Coming. ....

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. We need to be prepared because Bannon is cleverer than Bush & more messianic than Cheney

Instead of one hugely dramatic event, they may ramp it up with a series of smaller events or take advantage of deeply embedded troublemakers like anarchists and religious terrorists of any stripe.

Not to refight old battles, but I'll simply state I think Bush-Cheney was opportunist in the worst way without necessarily (but maybe) being LIHOP. There is much Bannon and Flynn can capitalize on just by waiting, and there is the possibility of LIHOP/MIHOP -- I wouldn't put it past Bannon.

Bannon thinks that the US needs to be / will be reorganized by a major cataclysm on the scale of at a minimum of the Civil War and WWII. He follows a wacky nutjob theory from Stauss & Howe: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-bannon-apocalypse_us_5898f02ee4b040613138a951

We are already seeing a small crackdown by ICE, rounding up "collateral" people who happened to be Without Papers While Brown.