Color me skeptical about Steve Bannon's exit being a disaster for the Republican base and its grassroots agenda that supports Donald Trump. Bannon's exit brings a certain ruefulness, given his talents during the presidential campaign.  He was defiant, unconventional, riding the wave of where the public was, and very, very, victorious.  The apoplectic rage he threw the left into was enough to make you like the man right there. But there's a difference between the talents of those with campaign skills and those with executive skills.  Bannon's success came from his campaign talents, not his executive ones.  Campaign geniuses are similar to successful Hollywood types in that their lives revolve around "gigs," and they finish one and move to the next height.  They are entrepreneurial, willing to challenge conventions, bold, shameless, and successful.  Executive types, by contrast, are those people who are the engines...(Read Full Post)