According to Steve Bannon, the Republican establishment is blocking President Donald Trump's agenda. That's why he's leading an insurgency whose ambitious goal is nothing less than the transformation of the GOP from a coalition led by mainstream conservatives like Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell to something that will better reflect the spirit of the Trump campaign and Breitbart.com, the website he runs.
The bitterness of the civil war Bannon has helped incite is on display in the Alabama Senate race, where he and Breitbart are doubling down on accused sexual predator Roy Moore's candidacy at precisely the moment when everyone else in the GOP is disavowing the same. To Bannon and many of his followers, the belief that politics is war by other means dictates defending anyone the dreaded establishment opposes, for Trump's sake. Indeed, Moore's maverick persona makes him all the more attractive to them because they know the twice-deposed Alabama judge is about as likely to caucus with the Democrats as he is to cooperate with McConnell.
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