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Steve Bannon is running his mouth again, bragging about the extremist and unhinged things that Donald Trump is going to do, and if anything it’s a reminder of how irrelevant Bannon has become. In the first Trump regime, Bannon was in the White House running the show. This time he’s reduced to sitting on the sidelines, pretending he’s still in the inner circle for the benefit of his remaining audience.

But it’s not just Bannon. Similar loudmouths like Laura Loomer have also been forcibly sidelined. She tried to work her way back in during the 2024 campaign, but the big money people around Trump managed to shove her out the door. In fact nearly all of the empty suited loudmouths have been pushed away from the Trump regime this time. It’s as if the big money people surrounding Trump have realized that having loudmouths telegraph your every corrupt and extremist move isn’t the most efficient way to get away with corrupt and extremist things.

And that’s dangerous for the rest of us. We know that the Trump regime is going to do corrupt and extremist things. We want them bragging about it in advance, so we can use their words against them in the court of public opinion, and use their words to figure out how to fight back against what’s coming. We don’t want a silent running from the Trump regime. We want them mouthing off like idiots.

The only good news this time around is that the most reckless loudmouth of all, Elon Musk, is also the big money person who’s closest to the center of Trump’s inner circle. Musk is running around like a buffoon, posting idiotic memes that portray the incoming Trump regime as unserious, and bragging about all the insane things he wants to have Trump do. We always have a hard time convincing the dummies in the middle that Trump really is going to do these awful things, until it’s too late. But now we’ve got Musk unwittingly doing our job for us.

This is why it’s inevitable that the other big money people in the Trump regime will want Musk gone. His unhinged mouth and unstable behavior are going to make it harder for the rest of the big money people to run their big money schemes. But it’s not clear how they can get rid of Musk, because (for now at least) he’s the conduit for getting to Trump.

If Trump’s people remain tight with each other, it gives them the strategic advantage. But the more these people in Trump world turn against each other, the more it gives us to work with in terms of dismantling them. It’s important for us to keep an eye on just how much of a liability Musk’s mouth is becoming, and how we can use that to short circuit entire aspects of the Trump agenda.

This is the fight of our lives. Trump and his unelected henchmen are actively to destroy our government, our democracy, and our way of life. We only have one choice, and that's to fight back as loudly and aggressively as possible.
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