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| This child's name is Charlotte. She could be the youngest child of Wills and Kate. People have told me that the dry leaf in her hand was stolen from another child. |
Not much of a book, it's more an under-researched "tell-some" masquerading as a "tell-all."
That said, Devil's Bargain does shine light on the execrable political partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump.
Its best four pages set out how Bannon's background (conservative Irish Catholic), education (taught in grade school that Ferdinand and Isabella saved Western civilization from the Moors; taught how to be a predatory capitalist at Harvard Business School), and character (he identifies with the honey badger) made him what he is today: a latter-day Visigoth.
Now that the barbarian has been tossed back outside the gates, two things seem true.
First, Trump has turned to proving that his bad behaviour is even worse without Bannon, so as to dispel those rumours that Bannon was the one in charge.
Second, Bannon is now past his peak power and influence. One telling sign of this is how his tactic of weaponized news is now being used against him. Devil's Bargain emulates the attack fact format of the Bannon-sponsored book about the Clintons. Also, the other barbarians are on to him. A fake e-mail blew Breitbart's cover.
Bannon is in genuine peril of being subsumed by the trolls he has tutored. Making stuff up by taking a kernel of truth and distorting it with innuendo and caustic asides is cheap and easy to do.
For example, the little girl in the photo above really is named Charlotte.
Thanks for reading!
Have a great week!
Karen
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