We knew that it could happen but no one, I think, thought that it would happen.
One day you’re the president’s chief strategist, the next day you’re a populist kingmaker poised to mastermind a Republican revolution in Senate primaries. And then the day after that, you’re a cuck without a job whom the president refers to as “Sloppy Steve.”
To wrap your head around how quickly the news cycle moves these days, reflect on the fact that it was less than a month ago that Roy Moore lost the Alabama Senate race to Doug Jones. That was supposed to be the launchpad for Bannon’s series of primary challenges to McConnell’s incumbents. Less than a month later, Moore is a political nonentity and Bannon, thanks to his penchant for gabbing to Michael Wolff, has lost his “killing machine” at Breitbart. He tried to engineer a coup of sorts in the Senate. Instead, by badmouthing Donald Trump Jr on the record to Wolff, he handed the president a reason to engineer a coup against him at his own website.
He waged #WAR, and he lost. Bigly.