Trump’s Rasputin made a boo boo
by digby
This is as illustrative of Bannon’s mindset as you can get:
When the balky hardliners of the House Freedom Caucus visited the White House earlier this week, this was Steve Bannon’s opening line, according to people in the conference room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building:
“Guys look, this is not a discussion. This is not a debate. You have no choice but to vote for this bill.
- Bannon’s point was: This is the Republican platform. You’re the conservative wing of the Republican Party. But people in the room were put off by the dictatorial mindset.
- One of the members replied: “You know, the last time someone ordered me to do something, I was 18 years old, and it was my daddy. I didn’t listen to him either.”
Granted, the Freedom Caucus is cray-cray. But thinking they were going to respond to this Hollywood producer pretending like he’s in a cheap TV movie was daft. They are bullies themselves and they know how it works. It’s not like this.
.