I gotta say, I'm impressed with Steve Bannon's
finesse in the PR department. Trump hasn't gone off script like he is want to do in the past week, but the script itself is pure Breitbart. If you read that shitrag as much as I do (I am a masochist) you start to pick up on what they're actually doing. Calling them racist, sensationalist, xenophobic, etc is one thing. They are all of that shit. But they preach it in an extremely cunning way: They always leave themselves an out.
Being openly racist isn't how you build a media company (not a successful one anyway), nor is it how you influence the public. What Breitbart does is it gives itself an aura of plausible deniability. "I'm not racist but...", that kinda shit. If they get called out on this they can just point to those half assed "everybody's human!" rhetorical techniques to both deflect criticism and claim that the PC gestapo is out to get them for telling "the truth".
Trump's last few speeches have done that in the most obvious way ever. He preaches to the black community (condescendingly I might add) and then follows it up with an avalanche of thinly veiled assaults on the entire concept of civil rights. This isn't even targeted at black people, it's meant to win over moderate whites or people who are disturbed by Trump's more white nationalist sentiments. "You can vote for a racist (who isn't racist by the way) while not being a racist (but black people still suck)" Package racism in a way that requires analysis to explain to people. And if there's anything people should know about American politics it's this: if you can't sum up your point in a short sentence people won't get it. So while the left is scrambling around trying to build an argument that Trump is racist the white people Trump is aiming this shit at see him say "I think black people are okay!" and think "gee, that's nice, he can't be all bad!".
So yes, from what I've seen so far, Bannon is one fucking hell of a smooth operator. I was expecting him to let Trump be Trump and drive his campaign into the ground. Instead he's letting Trump be Breitbart. And dear god it might actually work. The liberal media didn't even know how to respond to this torrent of bullshit this week. It was all see through as hell, but they were at a loss for words. How do you even begin to pick this apart concisely? How can Don Lemon possibly explain what's going on in his head when he sees this shit? He can only scoff while Trump goes smirking into the sunset.
I assume Bannon has Ivanka hostage somewhere incase Trump stops reading the teleprompter also.