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Bannon thrived on the chaos he created and did everything he could to make it spread. When he finally made his way through the crowd to the back of the town house, he put on a headset to join the broadcast of the Breitbart radio show already in progress. It was his way of bringing tens of thousands of listeners into the inner sanctum of the "Breitbart Embassy," as the town house was ironically known, and thereby conscripting them into a lar..
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Manafort's ouster extinguished the last vestige of hope for Republicans praying that Trump would at last pivot to a more statesmanlike approach. No one believed he had any chance of winning in November; their desperation, at this point, was driven purely by the desire to limit the scope of the expected GOP losses down the ticket. Bannon's elevation was simply unimaginable, the Republican establishment's worst nightmare come to life. "This i..
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If you were looking for a tone or pivot, Bannon will pivot you in a dark, racist, and divisive direction," said the GOP consultant Rick Wilson. "It'll be a nationalist, hateful campaign. Republicans should run away."
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Instead of the patriotic pageantry Republicans typically produce, the four-day event was a strange, dark, almost dystopian affair whose attempt to unify the party was marred by Ted Cruz's public refusal to endorse Trump, prompting the crowd to boo him off the stage during prime time.
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