If Steve Bannon is winning, I’d hate to see what losing looks like

Steve Bannon is broke, unemployed, looks like he’s living out of a dumpster, is facing criminal prosecution on the state and federal level, and his next stop is prison. Yet the major media outlets – and even Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update – keep insisting this all means Bannon is somehow winning. If that’s the case, I’d hate to see what losing looks like.

This is a common theme. Even as Donald Trump spent four years spinning his wheels and failing to get anywhere close to being in a position to win, cheat or steal reelection, the media spent the entire time insisting that Trump’s every idiotic move meant he somehow had us right where he wanted us.

The media nearly always portrays right wing villains as either winning or on the verge of a comeback, because it scares mainstream viewers into staying tuned in. In fact, when Trump and Bannon do get arrested, the media will likely spin that as being a big win for them as well. It’s just how the media covers right wing villains, regardless of what the real story is. It’s time for these kinds of ratings-driven narratives to end.