Steve Bannon is out and Elon Musk is in.
A man who once had an office and a whiteboard in the White House now has a podcast.
Banon was once the darling of right-wing media and the worlds preeminent Trump whisperer.
Trump’s team has imagined him as a King.© Official White House AI-generated art via X.
And while Bannon whines, Musk is opening the door to the Big Tech takeover of the United States.
The Department of Government Efficiencyappears to have access to private taxpayer data.
Hellkeep his jobas the CEO of a software company while he does it.
DOGE has gutted teams that were investigatingMusks various companies.
Musk himself has complained about government overspending while his companies receive billions of dollars in contracts.
Weve known for a while that Bannon and Musk arent friends.
Musk is a parasitic illegal immigrant.
Bannon has no one to blame but himself.
One popular story is that Bannon recognized the political power of tech-addicted young men early on.
Bannons version of the story is that he figured this out while running aWorld of Warcraftgold farm.
you’re free to activate that army, he said of the gamers.
They come in through Gamergate or whatever and then you get turned onto politics and Trump.
And Bannon activated that army.
Now hes lost control of it.
Its moved past him.
Another thing those angry young men loved was Elon Musk.
Bannon versus Musk represents a supposed broader rift in the Trump movement.
Avowed racist scumbag influencer Nick Fuentes has had wavering loyalty to Trump over the past year.
The preeminence of Musk and his cronies isnt helping.
Liberals were right about populism.
But these are just posts.
Vance and Fuentes and Bannon are all influencers.
Thats how politics works now.
Bannon saw Trump as a vehicle for his populist ideas.
But those ideas never mattered to Trump, not really.
The only thing that matters to Trump is Trump.
Trump is the political movement.
It lives and dies with him.
Trumpism is a cult.
There is nothing the President himself could do that would turn his supporters away from him.
A recent Pew poll revealed that most people in the countrydont supportgiving the executive branch more power.
But self-identified conservatives and Republicans say something else.
Trumpism is something new, a movement of the present moment we dont have adequate language to describe.
Ive long thought Trump was anout-and-out fascist.
He checks the boxes.
But hes not a Nazi or a Stalinist or a Mussolini-punch in, hes something else.
Were in something new now.
Its a strange convergence of historical trends, technology, and dying boomer personalities.
Its what Garbage Day writer Ryan Broderick has called The Age of Influentialism.
Like all influencers, hes now landed on a much more direct relationship with his followers, Broderick wrote.
And the other members of Trumps regime are operating the same way.
If Trump is MrBeast, hes turning our government into Lunchly.
As we speak, the Trump administration istrying to negotiatethe release of Andrew and Tristan Tate.
Its influencers all the way down.
As above, so below.
Musk and Bannon are influencers with an audience of one: Donald Trump.
Bannon is an old ideologue who sees the grand sweep of populist energy moving through Trump.
Trump sees himself as a King.
The official X account for the White Housefollowed suit.
They helped birth this thing, but they arent in control of it.
We all get to watch while it happens.
Some of us will become influencers ourselves.
Most of us will just be influenced.
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