The contradictions are numbing.

{Bannon} talks about how angry he was at the bankers in 2008, so what does his president do? Immediately announce his intention to allow the bankers to go back to doing exactly what they were pre-2008, because his “friends” are having problems over-leveraging their businesses.

He talks about how the unionized glass worker in Flint struggles to compete against the third world immigrant. So what will his president do? Support the strengthening of workers rights, unions, and other government regulations to strengthen the position of the worker in the marketplace? Nope, he will support right-to-work legislation and every form of union-busting Republicans throw his way and I guarantee his government will never lift a finger to actually penalize companies that hire illegal immigrants.

It almost makes it seem like he’s not entirely sincere about what he says he believes.

Bannon, Miller, Flynn and their ilk are all clearly itching for a major war with whoever they can come up with, Iran, China, Mexico, literally whoever. Their policies and goals will result in the suffering and deaths of likely millions. And yet, even people on the right side of the spectrum who recognize this still spend most of their time talking about how this is all the fault of liberals and leftists and literally anyone other than the people who were foolish enough to actually vote for this administration and hand the keys of the most powerful state in the history of the world over to a band of con artists like Trump, extremists like Flynn, and literal nihilists (or “Leninists”) like Bannon. As conservatives are usually so keen to say: Whatever happened to personal responsibility?

I don’t know how the next 4 years will play out, but if the last 2 weeks are any indication, all those who helped Trump gain power will one day need to atone for it, for the needless suffering that has been brought into this world, and you won’t be able to blame liberals for the world we live in anymore. […]

TAC Reader:
Yep. What the movers and shakers and opinion makers don’t realize is that people who want to burn it all down aren’t simply pathological pyromaniacs – the truth is, they’re just locked outside and freezing to death. [….]

Beginning with your assertion that Bannon is "Stalin and Lenin combined." That's not just hyperbole. It is an accurate description of the man based on his own words.

"Bannon says he’s a Leninist: That could explain the White House’s new tactics"

Excerpt:

Stephen Bannon, President Trump’s chief political strategist and, after Trump, the most powerful man in Washington, once declared proudly: “I am a Leninist.” He was talking to a New York university academic who had written extensively on communism and the former Soviet Union. “What on earth do you mean?” the professor asked him. “Lenin wanted to destroy the state and that’s my goal too,” replied Bannon. “I want to bring everything crashing down and destroy all of today’s establishment.”

From the evidence of Trump’s extraordinary campaign and first two weeks in the White House, Bannon has an assortment of Leninist political tactics that could have come from the Bolshevik leader’s playbook.

Two days after Lenin seized power in Russia almost exactly a century ago, he began an assault on the press – and his successors in the USSR did not let up for the next 70 years. […..] The Guardian

DJ:
"Should Donald Trump be concerned? Or is President Bannon already fully in control?"

Unfortunately, Bannon already has Trump's ear and Trump is way too full of himself and self-deluded to ever accept that he's being played by Bannon and, perhaps even, his National Security Advisor, Lieutenant Gen. Michael Flynn. (SEE the recent saber-rattling aimed at Iran).

And while Bannon doesn't YET have full control – he's darn sure working on it.