Oy Vey God Save America from Donny T ....With Breitbart, Trump campaign declares political bankruptcy ... Pleeease don't straight jacket him until November 9th. Let the disconnect between brain and mouth and reality continue.
Donald Trump's campaign is effectively declaring bankruptcy.
How else to explain what’s going on with a campaign that this week brought in Steve Bannon, head of the right-wing lunatic-fringe website Breitbart, as its chief executive?
Trump is doing what he’s done four times in the past when his interests began to fail. This is just the political version of Chapter 11. Trump doesn’t want to liquidate the passionate followers he has amassed over this campaign. He just wants to reorganize the operation — perhaps by turning it into a right-wing media company — so he can squeeze more money out of it or leverage it into something profitable.
On Wednesday, Donald Trump announced that Breitbart News executive Stephen Bannon would run his campaign.
Don’t believe me? Follow me down into the fever swamp that is Breitbart News Network, the unabashedly pro-Trump website run by the man now steering Trump’s already bizarre and floundering campaign.
It’s as much a news site as I am a porcupine, but it is read — and taken seriously — by millions of online readers.
Originally created by conservative provocateur Andrew Breitbart, who died in 2012, the site has become little more than a conspiratorial echo chamber where aggrieved white men vent their rage.
Anti-gay, anti-Muslim, anti-Obama, anti-Hillary, sexist, racist, nationalist. You name it, Breitbart has it, spewed out with tabloid enthusiasm.
A few past headlines:
“Take Down the Fascist, Anti-Christian Gay-Pride Flag.”
“Trannies Whine About Hilarious Bruce Jenner Billboard.”
“Big Gay Hate Machine Attempts to Take Over Congress.”
A couple of past paragraphs:
“One of the two openly gay hoteliers who hosted Republican Senator Ted Cruz at a Manhattan event last week, has caved to the Gaystapo with the kind of sniveling, dishonest and humiliating apology demanded by the Gaystapo if you don’t want your life ruined.”
“The disease of political correctness has infected our national consciousness and now we have a country that is in decline — not only in decline, but we have been effeminized as a nation.”
A quick sampling of recent comments left by readers of the website:
“Oooh, I love to see Liberals cannibalizing each other. I’d just as soon turn them all into fertilizer for my garden just to get some use out of their miserable lives.”
“Compare the Golden Age of film when we had some semblance of a Civilization to the movies now made under Jewlywood.”
“The first US citizen killed, maimed or raped by one of these pigs should get to kill two US congressman. Our borders will not be secured until we start executing the congressional globalists.”
“Trump is our last chance. If Trump can’t win, then armed force is the only thing we have left to keep the USA from being overran by lawlessness."
“Stock up, work on your Shot. And LOCK AND LOAD!!!!!!”
And then there are the words of Bannon himself, who on his radio show recently gave a shout-out to conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his utterly zany website, Infowars: “We love our brothers over at Infowars, Alex Jones, you know, dear friend. These guys are fantastic.”
They’re not fantastic. Current headlines on Infowars include “HILLARY’S TRAIL OF DEATH PROTECTED BY MAINSTREAM MEDIA” and, referring to billionaire George Soros, “SOROS BEHIND MUSLIM TAKEOVER OF WEST.”
Nice friend.
In a July broadcast, Bannon interviewed Joseph Schmitz, one of Trump’s foreign policy advisers, and asked him if he thinks the Obama administration is using the Muslim Brotherhood to shape U.S. policy.
Schmitz responded: “No, I don’t think it. I know it.”
This is the work of the man Trump has now put in charge of his campaign. If that doesn’t bother you, it sure as hell should. And if you think that’s the kind of personnel decision someone actually trying to become president of the United States would make, you’re as nuts as Alex Jones.
Bannon has used Breitbart to foment anger and hatred for profit. And now he’s guiding Trump, probably toward future media endeavors, with no concern for winning the election.
That’s why Trump is campaigning in states he’ll never win, like deep-blue Connecticut, and in states where he’s already a lock to win, like deep-red Mississippi. It makes no practical sense. He’s laying the groundwork to cash in post-election.
That’s when it’ll become clear his supporters were never more than junk bonds used to build his likely-to-fail presidential enterprise.
An enterprise now going into political bankruptcy.
It’s twisted. It’s sad.
And it’s perfectly Trumpian.
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