Let’s check in on the Breitbart comments section, which is surely handling Bannon’s departure well
Steve Bannon, a sentient shitpost that magically inhabited a biohazard disposal facility so as to teach the world about alcoholism, lost his job yesterday, ousted unceremoniously from his perch atop the angry boys’ club at Breitbart News. The last time Bannon lost his job, when he was booted from the Trump administration, it seemed like a mixed blessing; analysts at the time surmised that he might successfully wage #WAR on the Republican establishment, lobbying his merry band of trolls to place even more apocalyptic reactionaries into office. With yesterday’s departure, that seems a lot less likely. He’s probably fielding offers from InfoWars today, which does not bode well for his particular personal brand.
The reaction to it was, thus, one of unchecked, unanimous joy. Bannon’s the rare figure that pretty much everyone abhors at this point, a politically toxic, and probably literally toxic, individual whose acolytes, like Stephen Miller, are at least getting better at kowtowing to Trump’s unique managerial demands. And sure, you can read measured analyses of what his downfall means elsewhere, or hop over to Twitter to see the still-unfurling parlor game of Dunking On Bannon playing out. But the real action is happening in the Breitbart comments section, where an 87-word word article announced Bannon’s departure to the roiling hordes of 2018’s Trump coalition.
Currently at north of 40,000 comments, it is a Disqus-fueled descent into the madness of the Republican base. The top comment and its response set a fitting tone:
Well, Matt, there’s not a lot to say, but there were a lot of people who said things nonetheless. From there, things devolve into the various warring camps fighting for power within what’s left of the Trump coalition, from exclamation-point-happy MAGA faithful: