Trump will continue his losing streak if he keeps Bannon at his side, WSJ says in editorial

[Miles Archer]

Trump will continue his losing streak if he keeps Bannon at his side, WSJ says in blistering editorial



http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/trump-will-continue-his-losing-streak-if-he-keeps-bannon-at-his-side-wsj-says-in-blistering-editorial/

In a blistering editorial from the Wall Street Journal Tuesday, Bannon and his protégé Stephen Miller are described as the architects behind the strategy of polarization being seen in Trump’s White House. The editorial board goes on to blame Bannon and Miller for Trump’s “biggest mistakes of the first five weeks,” namely the immigration executive order, constant flubs over Trump’s Russian ties and General Michael Flynn.

The Journal explained that Bannon will never be capable of producing the results that he and Trump are promising. In the end, Bannon may even undermine Trump’s entire agenda. They rejected the Trump declaration that tariffs will reduce trade and ultimately slow growth. Similarly, they knocked Trump’s overly severe immigration laws that will ultimately cause a significant labor shortage and force companies to move elsewhere.

Trump’s Bannon-Miller policies are also prompting Republicans to distance themselves and according to The Journal, prompted senators to abandon his Labor Secretary nominee Andy Puzder. Even bruised Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) to announce his support for a special prosecutor to investigate Trump, his White House and his campaign for ties to Russia.

However, The Journal proclaimed Trump’s political future will ultimately live and die by the conservative Republican establishment that Bannon has spent his political career fighting. Trump’s own progress will come not from the determination to return to conservative values but from the successes or failures of the economic prosperity he swears is imminent under his leadership. Trump must also meet the promises he made to his base like repealing and replacing Obamacare, passing a substantial tax cut and breaking ground on his “big, beautiful, wall.”

[Cha]

1. K

[Eyeball_Kid]

2. My only question is: What took the WSJ so long to figure this out?

Bannon was the Rasputin curse on Trumpy from the get-go. Yet he was hand-picked by Trumpy himself, who refuses to be critical of Steve the Wonder. Yes, it must be true that Trumpy's Brain can't live without food for the gin blossoms, so we have a rigid, ideological con man playing brain trust to a rudderless, narcissistic Machiavellian performance artist in his 70th year of prolonged life, who happens to have the codes to destroy humanity on earth.

GOP and billionaire greed have taken the nation on a wildly off-course direction, so far off the path of world leadership that we may have lost our way and can't come back. From the 2000 SCOTUS fiasco to Citizen United, we've seen the US political system rot from the inside out. Now it's "easy pickins", and Uncle Vlad is ready for harvest.

[world wide wally]

3. Trump needs Bannon calling the shots because he is too stupid and scared to.