This is what I see in my crystal ball:
- Steve Bannon will start his own media network.
- (Surprise. Probably funded by Trump.)
- Which will be somewhere to the right of Fox News.
- (Good Lord!)
- Then, when the coast is clear,
- (If ever),
- Trump will resign. And he will become the star of Bannon's new blockbuster show.
- (Working title: "Swamp Thing".)
- Each week, in an interview with Sean Hannity, Trump will decimate somebody in Washington who didn't want to play with him,
- To the ecstatic delight of his base, who will never miss an episode.
- (And who will never get over Trump's political failure. Or the Confederacy.)
- Eventually Trump will become the new Rupert Murdoch.
- (Like we need a new Rupert Murdoch.)
- And maybe he and Melania will be able to go out to dinner in New York again.
- (Maybe.)
Everybody wins. Except for:
- "Non-base" America.
- Who, I predict, will be almost as miserable under President Pence.
- Because he's almost as crazy as Donald Trump.
- If you don't believe me,
- Ask Indiana.
This was probably the plan from the beginning, and got side-tracked because Trump liked being The President for a while. But that's not working out so well right now.
So it's time for Trump to go back to doing what he does best: being a somewhat goofy and supremely annoying media star. Much more fun that being president. Trump will again have adoring fans! fame! money! golf! Russian beauty pageants! and - as a private citizen - he can be as politically incorrect as he wants to be (which is, apparently, a lot), because nobody around him will be wearing a wire.
And even if they were, no one would care. A possible alternative future is that Trump and Bannon will just fade away into obscurity, a la Sarah Palin.
And even if they were, no one would care. A possible alternative future is that Trump and Bannon will just fade away into obscurity, a la Sarah Palin.
We can only hope.
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