The Coup Is Going Public

The Republican Party has been going through changes for quite some time. The election of a black President hastened those changes.

The Tea Party bullied it's way into the Republican Party and has been slowly displacing Republicans with political extremists ever since Obama became President.

Thanks to Putin and with the help of Russian cyber agents, our elections were massively disrupted and our news cycles were dominated by fake news.

It was during this media circus that Trump managed to slip into the Presidency and chaos became the new political order in Washington.

The chaos has allowed the not-so-private coup within the Republican Party to become a media circus in its own right. The coup is alive and well and ever so public.

Steve Bannon, the Executive Chairman of Breitbart News, is now the de facto leader of the Republican Party.

Bannon describes Breitbart News as the "platform for the alt-right". "Alt-right" is what people now call white supremacists. The KKK and American Nazi groups are the core of the alt-right. The alt-right is Trump's core.

We are watching the changing of the guard within the Republican Party. John McCain and Bob Corker are possibly the last vestiges of traditional, Republican conservatism. John is dying and Bob has had enough.

For his part, Bannon the Usurper is looking to reshape the Republican Party in his image of what the party should look like.

He is working to get Erik Prince (yeah, the same dark lord who gave us Brightwater) on the ballot in Wyoming by displacing Republican Senator John Barrasso who is a senior member of the Republican leadership in the Senate. Apparently John is not alt-right enough for Steve.

If you have been following the Bannon-Trump bromance, you might be aware that Bannon was the ideologue propping up Trump. Bannon was the real power behind the throne. Bannon is the true voice of the alt-right.

John McCain singlehandedly saved the country from a health insurance debacle and in the process reminded all Senators about what it meant to be a Senator and where a Senator's real duty lied.

Bob Corker has taken it a step farther. He has declared in no uncertain words that the emperor is both naked and ugly. He said that Mattis, Kelly and Tillerson are what stands between the chaos of Trump and the well being of our country. He said that Trump could be leading us toward World War III.

Bannon wants to bring it all down. He has no use for our government as it is. He has his own ideas about nationalism and foreign policy.

Bannon is doing much better than Hitler did at Munich. Bannon has already secured the Administrative Branch of our government and now he wants to take over the Executive Branch.

Should it become necessary, Bannon probably has a contingency plan in place should Trump do anything to offend him.

I don't know what the lapel pin for the alt-right will be. In keeping with tradition I would not be surprised to see something like this.

Holy Moly!