Oh this should be fun
by digby
By now you’ve heard that Trump has shaken up his campaign team a bit by promoting Kellyann Conway to campaign manager and bringing on his alter ago Breitbart’s Steve Bannon as chief executive. Here’s Robert Costa on the new game plan:
Bannon has convinced Trump that rest of campaign needs to be bare-knuckles brawl, w/ full-bore populism/movement politics— Robert Costa (@costareports) August 17, 2016
I don’t know what they mean by “populism/movement” but it seems to mostly be anti-establishment white nationalism. This article in the Washington Post, co-written by Costa, lays it all out. I don’t think it’s going to be pretty:
In the short term, Trump campaign strategists will seek to keep the candidate focused on two themes that have animated him in recent months: defeating terrorism and expanding law enforcement, which they see as going hand in hand and as an effective way to hit Clinton.
Authoritarianism R Us. Shudder.
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