Any one esle find themselves thinking "Rasputin",

[marybourg]

when hearing about Bannon?

Didn't end well for him OR his protector.

[marylandblue]

1. Seems more like Cardinal Richelieu

[GliderGuider]

2. Yes indeed. There is a similar team on the other side:

Vladimir Putin and Aleksander Dugin. the problem is that "the other side" really isn't on the other side. Bannon/Trump are working with them to bring about Dugin's malignant ideological goal of destroying western liberalism, especially liberal democracy. This is an ideological attack such as America has never experienced before.

[dalton99a]

3. More like Albert Speer/Joseph Goebbels/Heinrich Himmler

[MrPurple]

6. I don't know if any of Trump's people are as competent and rational as Albert Speer...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Rasputin, Cardinal Richelieu, Machiavelli, Thomas Cromwell.

[2naSalit]

8. Question...

Why is Machiavelli on that list?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Machiavelli himself was never as bad as the cynical politics of "The Prince" suggests.

I included him because of what he has come to represent, as Leo Strauss wrote:

Machiavelli is the only political thinker whose name has come into common use for designating a kind of politics, which exists and will continue to exist independently of his influence, a politics guided exclusively by considerations of expediency, which uses all means, fair or foul, iron or poison, for achieving its ends—its end being the aggrandizement of one's country or fatherland—but also using the fatherland in the service of the self-aggrandizement of the politician or statesman or one's party.

[2naSalit]

12. Indeed, that's why I asked,

he was more the messenger/scribe than anything.

[Generator]

5. Notoriously hard to kill

Rasputin wasn't a NAZI either. Gawd why are we fighting Nazi's again mommy why?

[Snarkoleptic]

7. I've been referring to the Rasputinesque whispers of Bannon.

Very troubling stuff coming from him and others in Drumpf's sphere.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. Yes that was my thought too

[kskiska]

11. So much for Ivanka & Jared's influence