One night, as I was reading in bed, I heard the ping of my phone: Bannon had sent me a story from a Rio Grande Valley website, reporting that Republican turnout at early-voting polls was up up up. Winning elections-in France, in Hungary, in South Texas, where Hispanic voters are migrating into the R column with impressive speed. But winning is certainly an all-consuming preoccupation for Bannon, just as it is for his former boss. He sent me a picture of Lévy’s book The Empire and the Five Kings. I destroy folks except I always pull back to not be obnoxiousīernard-Henri Lévy, he meant, the famous French intellectual. (He had previously referred to her work as “brilliant,” but something she’d just said about Hunter Biden’s laptop didn’t agree with him.) Later, while reflecting on this comment, I asked him: Who’s been his most worthy intellectual sparring partner so far? One day he called my colleague Anne Applebaum a fucking KLOWN. ( Just sat in the family room for hours.) He would fret about his weight and express pleasure when a newspaper used a photo that did not, for once, make him look god-awful, like some deranged incel by way of Maurice Sendak. He would talk about missing his father, who died in January at 100, and how strange it was to be in his childhood home alone. There were times when he almost resembled a regular human. There were times when my text interactions with Bannon felt like one prolonged Turing test.
#Someone like you tablaturas how to#
Twice he used this word, weaponize, in talking about his plan to flip Senate seats in Nevada and Arizona-adding, I can clearly see how to win. This is a huge issue that I’m about to make toxicĪnd so it went that day: The work before us is to weaponize this vote. Wasn’t your show supposed to flip her? I asked. I sent him a New York Times story on April 4 to tweak him. I tell him I’ll be interested to see if Murkowski responds. He’s talking about the Senate confirmation vote on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination, and uncertainty about whether Lisa Murkowski, the senior Republican senator from Alaska, will vote yes. I’m taking out Murkowski today and forcing her to vote NO on judge Jackson And last of all, perhaps above all else, straight-up megalomania, which even those who profess affection for the man can see, though it appears to be a problem only for those who believe, as I do, that he’s attempting to insert a lit bomb into the mouth of American democracy. Garden-variety hypermania (with a generous assist from espressos). Also, the mania: logomania, arithmomania, monomania (he’d likely cop to all of these, especially that last one-he’s the first to say that one of the features of his show is “wash rinse repeat”). The chaos and the focus, the pugnacity and the enthusiasm, the transparency and the industrial-grade bullshit. You can discern much of Bannon’s mad character and contradictions in these exchanges. Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read.
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