Trump and Bannon: Buccaneer Brothers

Donald Trump is the hero in a fable of his own making.  In the beginning, he may not have been a true believer himself, but he was smart enough to recognize that Republicans were fed up with the Bush dynasty and business as usual on the right. Cluelessness on the left was even more manifest.  The New York Times, the Washington Post, public broadcasting, and the major commercial networks were all slapped by a Trump Twitter account.  Print and broadcast media have yet to adjust to the reality of mainstream menopause.    Smug progressives and their press allies were at first contemptuous of a populist candidate, then confused, and now hysterical.  Over time, Trump exposed Fourth Estate shills as blatant partisans, makers and fakers, not reporters of the news.  He used social media to talk past the establishment, the conventional wisdom, and most of the news spinners.  With ribald irony, Donald Trump hoisted press and broadcast mavens with...(Read Full Article)