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Trump's Clown Car Administration and Steve Bannon the Radical
from A Nuanced Man · #40
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4 minTim rips into the chaotic Trump White House staffing (Kushner, Ivanka, Flynn, Bannon's ouster, Reince Priebus) and pivots into a surprisingly sympathetic take on Bannon's radical anti-empire, anti-free-trade ideology.
- 18:42Trump appointed a clown car to run the country, with his fucking family everywhere.
- 19:04Bannon was forced out, Flynn resigned in disgrace—this is a legitimate clown car administration.
- 19:25The outrage is almost valid but expressed poorly, like defending Hitler for not using gas on troops.
- 20:13Sean Spicer's awkward wording about Holocaust gas chambers was insensitive and technically wrong.
- 20:43A clown car of incompetent people got pulled in front of the White House and staffed every government position.
- 21:24Bannon is deeply revolutionary and hates the moderate Reince Priebus; there's an internal war in the administration.
- 21:34Bannon wants to reform America and doesn't care about maintaining empire—it's the Buchanan wing of conservatism.
- 21:48Bannon's ideology calls for isolationism and clamping down on free trade, reversing fifty years of major policy.
- 22:00Tim watched some of Bannon's recent speeches on economics and found him not as crazy as expected.
Donald TrumpSteve BannonMichael FlynnIvanka TrumpJared KushnerRick PerrySean SpicerK.T. McFarlandReince Priebus