Ben ShapiroOn Friday, Hollywood Reporter’s Michael Wolff released an exclusive story about new White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon. The story shouldn’t make conservatives particularly comfortable about Bannon’s role in the administration. In it, Wolff portrays Bannon as the intellectual soul behind Trumpism. And Bannon speaks that way. He sees himself as a dark arts guru, a sort of evil genius manipulating the political system: “Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That’s power.” He sees himself as Trump’s brain: “I am Thomas Cromwell in the court of the Tudors.”
But more importantly, he sees himself as the lead figure in ushering out the era of constitutional conservatism and ushering in the era of far-right nationalist populism, as I’ve warned in this space before:
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