Bannon Unbound

The firing of Steve Bannon is good for many reasons.  The symbolic ouster of an Alt-right agitator.  The lack of cover for the other white supremacist goons in the West Wing (look for Miller and Gorka to depart soon).  The aesthetic appeal of not having to seen the scab encrusted face on the news.

Take a look at this quote from Bannon:
“The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over,” Bannon told the Weekly Standard. “We still have a huge movement, and we will make something of this Trump presidency. But that presidency is over. It’ll be something else. And there’ll be all kinds of fights, and there’ll be good days and bad days, but that presidency is over.”

Here we have my real hope for Bannon's firing.  My hope is that he tries to fulfill his dream of creating a third party.  Bannon goes on:
“I think they’re going to try to moderate him,” Bannon said. “I think he’ll sign a clean debt ceiling; I think you’ll see all this stuff. His natural tendency — and I think you saw it this week on Charlottesville — his actual default position is the position of his base, the position that got him elected. I think you’re going to see a lot of constraints on that. I think it’ll be much more conventional.”

Again, he's not interested in policy (similar to Trump in that regard).  Bannon and Trump worked because they both wanted the combat, not the victories.  As the author of the article notes, Bannon is going to position himself at Breitbart in behalf of Trump and against the GOP. (Yes, obviously the latte-sipping liberals, but he could have done that in the White House.)

As Trump starts to actually do his job and sign things like a debt ceiling increase, maybe a tax deal with a carbon tax, he will move further from his base of deplorables.  Bannon will be there to blame it on "the swamp."

Hopefully the next step is creating a new party - for historical sake, let's call it the American Party - and they start siphoning off votes in critical races.  Neither Bannon nor Trump have much use for the GOP establishment, so the fact that the American party will be handing power to Democrats won't phase them.  They could convince themselves that they are playing the long game, like the way the Free Soil Party destroyed the Whigs.

If you pull out the 25% of the electorate that doesn't believe in evolution, but believes in Donald Trump, you hand the Congress, the Presidency and the state houses to Democrats.

Please proceed, Bannon.  Please.