days and weeks, Republicans are going to be asked to confirm appointees who don't agree with their

ideological views or priorities and who all the Republicans now are not up to any of the jobs

they've been tapped to do. But none of that is the point, is it? Here's how Steve Bannon reacted to the choice of Matt Gates,

S. A.T. Matt Gates is the fierces of the fierce warriors. He is the firebrand of firebrands.

He's going to hit the Department of Justice with a blowtorch. And that blow torch is a guy named

Matt Gates.

I could say a lot of things about Bannon, but at least he says it all out loud, right?

And he's been saying it for years.

Trump's picks are part of this project that Bannon has described four years now publicly as the destruction of the administrative state.

The fulfillment of a vision, Bannon has been fighting for years.

Here he is making that point earlier today.

We're going to burn some of these institutions down to the ground because you know why?

They need to be burned down to the ground because you know why they need to be burned down to the ground

I think Bannon started with this effort which again was always out in the open of destroying the administrative state if I remember the reporting correctly with a whiteboard in his

West Wing office during the short time that he was in the administration.

And it may have taken longer to arrive at this, but it seems very intentional that the cabinet

picks from Trump are meant to divide newsrooms and send them chasing their tails to see if

the ethics investigation in the Gates is going to break.

Or Tulsi Gabbard's comments that even

Sean Hannity found offensive are going to get any reaction from the mighty Senate Republicans

or if Texas myriad scandals are going to, I mean, it seems that the sum of the reaction

to those is intended to advance the broader project of Bannons?

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