A speculative thread on bannon
Eric Garland @ericgarland
Steve Bannon's 60 Minutes interview will go down as a historical document of political insanity. But check this:
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/60-minutes-breitbart-steve-bannon-declares-war-on-the-gop/
STEVE BANNON: The Republican establishment is trying to nullify the 2016 election. That's a brutal fact we have to face.
CHARLIE ROSE: The Republican establishment?
STEVE BANNON: The Republican establishment is trying--
CHARLIE ROSE: Wants to nullify the 2016 election?
STEVE BANNON: Trying to nullify the 2016 election. Absolutely.
Bannon is angry at REPUBLICANS for conspiring to nullify the election that put them in the majority.
That doesn't make any sense. Unless.
This is Bannon's Telltale Heart: I believe he expected the GOP to defy the rule of law with impunity and ignore criminal acts.
Sessions recused, McConnell and Ryan cannot stem the tide, and the individual committees are charging ahead. So Bannon's tipping his hand.
He's now proactively accusing the Republicans of doing what the law may, in Bannon's eyes require: the nullification of the election.
Marks v. Stinson is sometimes cited as a potential precedent where if there is a CONSPIRACY to interfere with election process, it's null.
Perhaps Bannon knows of how many people interfered with election process, all expecting the GOP would cover it up. Might explain his nerves.
ADDITIONAL BONUS NUTTERY: Bannon apparently laments the "original sin" of actually assembling an Executive Branch!
STEVE BANNON: In the 48 hours after we won, there's a fundamental decision that was made. You might call it the original sin of the administration. We embraced the establishment. I mean, we totally embraced the establishment. I think in President Trump's mind, or President-elect Trump's mind, in Jared's mind, in the family's mind, I actually agreed with the decision. 'Cause ya had to staff a government. And to be brutally frank. You know, the campaign look, I'd never been on a campaign in my entire life, right? You know, I'm a former investment banker who's a media guy, running a little website. We were-- our whole campaign was a little bit the island of misfit toys. So he looks around and I'm wearing my combat jacket, I haven't shaved, I got, you know, my hair's down to here, and he says he's thinking. "Hey, I've gotta put together a government. I've gotta really staff up something. I need to embrace the establishment."
Hey, he said he intended to destroy "the administrative state." Leaving only Trump and a few conspirators.
That's also known as a coup.
Bannon is ACTUALLY ADMITTING IN PUBLIC that he really wished they didn't form a government, and just ruled with Trump alone.
Dictatorship.
Well, you can understand why Bannon is upset that the coverup didn't happen and that the election might be nullified.
He's in trouble.
If, say, Bannon was key to a conspiracy to interfere with a US election and install a dictatorship, it's kind of a bad look.
Bannon has been called by no committees as a witness thus far.
I'll bet Mueller is saving the best for last.
Addendum: An alternate theory is that Bannon knows nullification is unlikely and the current process will remove Trump regardless.
In that case, stirring up fears about an unprecedented nullification are to simply add chaos to the political discourse. Deza.
The dictatorship analysis still stands; it's the remedy that remains in question.
The rule of law will stand strong.