Steve Bannon plans to run the GOP and the country by 2018

[UCmeNdc]

According to Bloomberg News;

Steve Bannon plans to back primary challengers to almost every Republican senator who runs for re-election next year in an effort to depose Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and streamline Senate voting procedures, three people familiar with his plans said. [...]

Bannon plans to support as many as 15 Republican Senate candidates in 2018, including several challengers to incumbents, the people said. He'll support only candidates who agree to two conditions: They will vote against McConnell as majority leader, and they will vote to end senators' ability to block legislation by filibustering.

[Tanuki]

1. Translation: Billionaire Robert Mercer plans to.....etc.

You can be sure the evil genius of big data has carefully targeted those races.

[Raster]

7. Oh yes, Mercer is the money...

...Bannon is just the mouthpiece. Mercer has discovered how to make data management, mining, and manipulation work in the political world, just like he has done in the financial world.

[Not Ruth]

2. Primary 15 incumbents......uh huh....

"In the two weeks since Bannon-backed former judge Roy Moore defeated Sen. Luther Strange in Alabama's Republican primary, Bannon has expanded his map of targets in the 2018 midterms and ramped up his efforts to establish a donor network to fund his slate of insurgent candidates.
Bannon has added Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, Nebraska Sen. Deb Fischer and Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch to the ranks of incumbents he plans to take on."

[octoberlib]

4. The media act like Bannon masterminded the Roy Moore win. Moore was going to

win regardless because of the scandal surrounding Strange.

[n2doc]

5. Exactly. n/t

[WinkyDink]

3. Robert Burns had something to say about such things.

[woodsprite]

6. The old "Turd Blossom" Karl Rove might, as well. n/t

[Orrex]

8. I'm planning to watch and laugh as his liver gives out before then.

[redstatebluegirl]

9. Not Bannon it's Mercer.

[milestogo]

10. Steve Bannon plans to ruin the GOP and the country by 2018

[Hortensis]

11. Look into what these people have let slip, or said outright -- nazi movement.

They can try to camouflage it as respectful, as well as words can accomplish (frequently lots and lots of them in dense "philosophical" prose), but they're the same people, same hateful destructiveness, new generation.

That Bannon is commonly referred to as a populist leader by the media is misleading because most people misunderstand what that means, but the media are technically not wrong. (Populism is a real word with real meaning, and it is NOT good involved people standing up for themselves in a noble grassroots movement.)

Populism is a dangerously powerful negative energy. It is an angry resentment specifically focused against whatever is seen as "the establishment." HOWEVER, this energy can be used by its leaders to grab power in order to further virtually any ideology, limited only by their ability to persuade and deceive. Hitlerism was a successful populist movement in that the movement destroyed "the establishment" and put new leadership in place. Trumpism is the current face of a populist movement against both the Republican Party and national establishments that Bannon is trying to become a leader of.

[no_hypocrisy]

12. I don't see how Bannon can figure on getting more votes by

changing republican votes from conservative to right wing. The only thing that will change is the substance of legislation. A republican is more likely than not to vote for "tax reform" whether s/he is moderate, conservative, movement conservative, or right wing.

My guess is Bannon and the Mercers are purging the party of any non-right wing republicans through primaries.

[SonofDonald]

13. Delusions of Grandeur

If it wasn't for the mercers, bannon would be on the corner handing out stained conspiracy theory pamphlets that smell like gin and vomit