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Trump Adviser Steve Bannon is Leaving White House Post (nytimes.com)
President Donald Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon left his position on Friday (alternative source) as the newly minted chief of staff John Kelly sought to bring order to a White House riven by infighting and power struggles, more than a dozen news outlets report. Maggie Haberman, reporting for The New York Times: The president and senior White House officials were debating when and how to dismiss Mr. Bannon. The two administration officials cautioned that Mr. Trump is known to be averse to confrontation within his inner circle, and could decide to keep on Mr. Bannon for some time. As of Friday morning, the two men were still discussing Mr. Bannon's future, the officials said. A person close to Mr. Bannon insisted the parting of ways was his idea, and that he had submitted his resignation to the president on Aug. 7, to be announced at the start of this week, but the move was delayed after the racial unrest in Charlottesville, Va.
The CNBC article says both that Bannon resigned and that Trump fired him.
The national socialist workers' party is not alt-right. What strange country do you live in where you think either socialists or labor parties are right?
The term 'Nazi' meant a member of the Nazi (National Socialist German Workers) Party. During the war the term Nazi was used to refer to pretty much all Germans. After the war the term was mostly used to describe members of Hitlers government and the Party paramilitary wings, the SA (brown shirts) and the SS. today I believe we can all agree that it has now a become a generic term for their core beliefs in racist nationalism although it is often used in daily speech to describe authoritarian figures.
He's signed 43 bills into law including the biggest one IMHO that helps veterans with health care to help undo the damage Bernie Sanders did when he was head of the VA Affairs Senate committee. Also, additional whistleblower protections were added for VA employees that expose corruption and problems. That would have helped my sister-in-law, but she went to the media in 2011 when no one in the upper government gave a damn about the VA so she was fired and nothing changed. He also reinstated the requirements that state-created retirement plans be financially stable by requiring states contribute enough to fund the plan. Obama had signed a law allowing states to have unfunded retirement plans in order to help Illinois and California. Also, he rolled back part of Ted Kennedy's No Child Left Behind.
And the one that I think most of my friends think is most important is that he finally successfully pushed through creating a memorial on the National Mall for Gulf War vets.
Of course, I could see why if someone hated the military, they would hate how Trump is helping vets. Or, if they wanted states to be as irresponsible at retirement savings.
Have a look at his original staff and check who is left: http://time.com/4658499/donald... Of those who sometimes communicated their own opinions rather than simply defending Trump, there is only Kushner (family) and Pence (elected VP). Those that left include Bannon, Priebus, Flynn, McFarland, Walsh, Dubke, Spicer, Scaramucci, and more. https://www.bustle.com/p/all-t... We are looking at 3.5 more years of a delusional President who chooses divisive people for his staff and then fires anyone who gets under his thin skin. I can't see how competent people would agree to work there given what we know thus far.
against what would otherwise be called a "shoe in" candidate.
Clinton was never a "shoo-in" candidate. That her campaign thought she was is irrelevant. She shares with Trump the honor of being among the least popular major party candidates in history.
The economy, kinda, but more concrete would be supreme court appointment and reduced immigration.
None of those are Trump victories.
The economy has simply continued the trend line that started well before Trump got in office.
The supreme court appointment was engineered by Congress and no matter who was President, they were going to make an appointment.
Immigration reduction was also a trend that started well before Trump got in office (although you could argue that he increased the rate of reduction).
The nazis in Germany were an extreme rightist group. The neo nazis of today in America and Europe are an extremist right group. The rally they were invited to and shared common ideology with was called "Unite the Right". There is nothing socialist about it. You either are using fake news or revisisionist history sites to get your false information from, or else you're actively engaging in spreading these lies.
I can understand the logic though. Nazis are evil, liberals are evil, you are good, your friends on the extreme right are good, therefore Nazis must be liberals. It's a comfortable view to take if you are leaning towards extreme right positions. But it's still incorrect.