This is how authoritarians advance: By saying the quiet part out loud until it isn’t quiet anymore.
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Bannon’s Third Trump Coup

This is how authoritarians advance: By saying the quiet part out loud until it isn’t quiet anymore.

Rick Wilson
Oct 25
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Steve Bannon has a new prophecy, delivered with that familiar, scabrous mix of menace and mysticism: Donald Trump will be president again in 2028. He said it straight to The Economist, with the added flourish that there’s a “plan” … one so secret and brilliant it apparently outruns the plain text of the Twenty-Second Amendment and the limits of reality itself.

In his telling, Trump is not merely a politician but a vessel of “divine providence,” destined to take a third bite out of the apple because the people (well, his people) demand it.

Let’s be clear: this isn’t strategic noise, it’s a stress test on the constitutional guardrails.

Try it, motherfucker.

Bannon is road-testing a narrative that treats the Constitution as negotiable, the law as elastic, and power as a permanent condition of the right people in the right offices. He’s not coy about it either. Asked how they’d get around the pesky “no third term” rule, he purred that there are “many different alternatives,” and that, at the “appropriate time,” he’d unveil the plan.

Translation: They’re workshopping pathways to normalize the unthinkable and daring the rest of us to stop them...

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