On Wednesday, Donald Trump’s campaign announced Breitbart News chairman Stephen Bannon as its new CEO — shocking no one in the conservative world.
Conservatives joked openly for months about “Trumpbart” and the transformation of Breitbart.com into, essentially, Bannon.com, but it was still something of a surprise that Trump would so publicly embrace Bannon, a man who helped transform a mainstream conservative website into a cesspool of the alt-right. It also comes as a surprise — or at least it should — that the Republican National Committee appears ready to go right along with the Bannon-Breitbart-Trump takeover of the party, even as the Trump campaign’s latest move means RNC Chairman Reince Priebus now sits, effectively, side by side with alt-right Trump fans.
The takeover, now a virtual fait accompli, represents the dangerous seizure of the conservative movement by the alt-right.
Constitutional conservatives can’t stand the alt-right. Conservatives — real conservatives — believe that only a philosophy of limited government, God-given rights and personal responsibility can save the country. And that creed is not bound to race or ethnicity. Broad swaths of the alt-right, by contrast, believe in a creed-free, race-based nationalism, insisting, among other things, that birth on American soil confers superiority. The alt-right sees limited-government constitutionalism as passé; it holds that only nationalist populism on the basis of shared tribal identity can save the country. It’s a movement shot through with racism and anti-Semitism
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Sad!
Remember how much hell Trumpkins gave Heidi Cruz for once working at Goldman Sachs? Meet Steve Bannon. pic.twitter.com/w7UOhucJIV
— Collin Roth (@collinroth) August 18, 2016
This is devolving into the ridiculous! It is painful to watch, and yet it is no dream to wake up from…it is the new reality. I liked some elements about Breitbart News, but never really cared that much for Bannon. Seeing that revolting picture of him confirms my suspicions that he has stolen Breitbart’s name for his own enterprising. Breitbart must be in a permanent faceplate by now.
Pray for righteousness to be restored and for the peace of Jerusalem
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