I now understand what it is like to be in the court of the Tudors," reflected Bannon. On the campaign trail, he recalled, Newt Gingrich "would come with all these dumb ideas. When we won he was my new best friend. Every day a hundred ideas. When"-by spring in the White House-"I got cold, when I went through my Valley of Death, I saw him one day in the lobby and he looks down, avoiding my eyes with a kind of mumbled 'Hey, Steve.' And I say, 'What are you doing here, let's get you inside,' and he says, 'No, no, I'm fine, I'm waiting for Dina Powell.'" Having attained the unimaginable-bringing a fierce alt-right, antiliberal ethnopopulism into a central place in the White House-Bannon found himself face to face with the untenable: undermined by and having to answer to rich, entitled Democrats.
( Michael Wolff )
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