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We can talk about a military coup, hard or soft, when Trump is taken out (hard or soft) by one of his former military appointees. Until then, maybe we can speak of them as a few voices of reason and people who know what they're doing in this White House infestation of bozos, cronies, royal offspring, newbies, and anarchistic saboteurs.
I mean sure, we have narcissistic racists running the show, and a creepy conspiratorial nutjob who wants to foment a "clash of civilizations" (much to the pleasure of ISIS/Daesh), attempting to insinuate himself into all decision-making (remember, ⊥rump was furious when he realized that Bbbannon had had him sign an EO that put Bbbannon on the NSC... sneaky tart!).
All of this is mind-boggling stuff, really.
Oh, and btw Stranger staff, Firefox is telling me that your comment sign in isn't secure, just giving you a heads up as I've never gotten this message before.
Outside the US, it is quite common for the secular left to align with the military against the religious right.
Erdogan's rise to power in Turkey was a reaction to the Kemalist leftist-secularist-military alliance, and its suppression of religion (i.e. Islam, particularly outside Istanbul).
The Egyptian counterrevolution (the military coup that removed the Green Revolution's democratically elected Muslim president) was carried out by an alliance of Egyptian leftists and the Egyptian military.
This is really not an uncommon thing. Leftists the world over are quite willing, even eager, to root for the military when the military looks like it will be a convenient means to their ends.
My initial reaction was identical to that of GS @ 1: Bannon may have some stains on his hands and his removal looks like an attempt to tell the FBI, “I didn’t know.”
...Over Bannon?
Fuck yes, they're less scary, and also less likely to provoke a war or two.
Now we can all sleep well.
(Can we now discard that article people were Facebooking about how the Muslim ban was a headfake to distract us from the rl srs bsnss, Bannon as a principal? Or is there a new layer of metaheadfake theory now?)
Josh Marshal has been covering this, and it's a confusing story. But one possibility is that Flynn had his deputy Cohen-Watnick start combing through the intelligence files on Trump-Russia connections, in order to get a lead on what they would be up against in the Senate. Flynn resigned but his deputy continued at the insistence of Bannon and against the wish of McMaster. McGahn heard what was up and told Cohen-Watnick to stop immediately before the investigation got Trump impeached. Cohen-Watnick responded by calling Rep. Sam Nunes to the White House in the middle of the night and dumping the file on him. McGahn then may have told Trump that Cohen-Watnick's games were a ticket to jail, and he needed to get all political operatives off the NSC immediately.
Just one possibility. Nothing confirmed yet. But imagine Trump getting an earful from his own Lawyer-- it's the sort of thing that would make him take action fast.
Just need some casual misogyny or bafflingly incorrect and opinionated "science" and my Mudede bingo card will be complete.
This particular battle - adults vs toddlers - has been going on since inauguration day, with Priebus and Pence being on the former side and Trump and Bannon on the latter. Bannon has no allies in the White House except Trump.