Bannon

                   I remember it as if it were this morning....that day in August of 2016 when as I was in line at 6 AM for my breakfast order at the McDonald's drive-through....a guest host came on Breitbart's morning show. Back then it was unusual for a guest host to be on a show when it wasn't announced the day before. Rush was real good at that. He knew that the listeners wanted him at the mic....but told them in advance anyway that he was not going to be on. He respected his listeners. It's a little different today....as on a number of occasions I've experienced that a host would be gone for an entire week....and I had no idea why....thus demonstrating that we the listening audience are no longer respected....for they know that we will continue to tune in....for we cannot think for ourselves anymore....being strung out for five years on the drugs of anger and revenge and self-absorption.
                    Back to that morning in August of 2016....we would find out later in the day that Steve Bannon was appointed Donald Trump's election campaign's....chief executive....in other words he would run the show. I knew that day that Donald Trump would win in November. Why? Because as good as Rush was.....and he was the very best at disseminating the conservative message....with no one even close.....no one that is.....except Bannon....who was that good....and I knew that his talents would be every bit as effective at the head of the campaign. I posted this back then...."Bannon.....is [an] oratorical tour de force unlike anything I have ever seen before." 
                    You probably wouldn't recognize today the Steve Bannon of 2016. He was fair.....and he was calm....and he was smart. He took all kinds of opposing opinions on the Breitbart radio show....and was polite.....as he would often respond...."I'm going to throw you a fastball"....in other words he was going to challenge the callers....with his intellect.....instead of calling them names.....or more likely just not letting these callers in.....which we do today.

                    The 2016 election turned out like I thought that it would. In the late fall of that year.....with election day near.....and as I traveled a few times across Pennsylvania.....the evidence of Trump support in the signs all over the state was more than anything I had witnessed in almost fifty years of following politics. Bannon had done his job.
                    I could say that I do not know the Steve Bannon of today.... because he is not the same.....but I have read enough on him over the past five years.....(there has been a few books just on him)....that I think I still do know him a little bit.....it's just that he does not appear to be the same man. Steve Bannon had the voice to go along with the words that came out. He was handsome in college and in the navy. He had movie star looks....believe it or not. It turns out that he had some very strange beliefs....particularly in how history runs in cycles....(no problem there)....but those cycles were on a strict schedule....and this was the time for a major change....and he was going to be on top of it.

                    I posted this on Steve Bannon in 2017...."what was most disappointing to me was that this man who I thought to be somewhat of a God-fearing man....is more "mystical" than spiritual. He views Western Civilization as some sort of holy force field or medieval brotherhood of crusading knights rather than just the more positive elements of a fallen world." Did Donald Trump destroy Steve Bannon....or did Bannon just succumb to his 'mystical' side....or was it a little bit of both?