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Originally Posted by REDVAN
For all those who've been against Trump so far, so you not think removing Bannon and Priebus would be a positive?
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Not really, because it depends on who replaces that influence. Kushner and Ivanka? Maybe, just maybe a little better-intentioned (in that their brand of corrupt self-enrichment is based on a more positive image), but spectacularly unqualified.
The neo-con establishment? Potentially disastrous internationally if it leads to another interventionist conflict.
Pence? Probably one of the more stable options, but terrible for certain minority groups.
Trump trusting his own judgement? That's maybe the scariest thought of all.
Preibus is slimy, but he's also primarily interested in Republican power (more than agenda), which involves hitting certain key alarmist notes but not actually doing much to rock the boat. I think he might be a stabilizing force within the whitehouse, and if he's gone that's one less moderating voice.
Bannon, on the other hand, good riddance.
It wouldn't surprise me if Bannon and Preibus were the two guys most outspokenly against the Syria missile strikes; Bannon because he's a firm believer in an isolationist, nationalist foreign policy, and Preibus because he knows that little political good can come from the way that this was done (without congressional or public appeal first). I can't help imagining that the security council met to discuss this, and shortly after Russia contacted Trump through back-channels expressing their displeasure, and Trump immediately knew that Bannon had leaked this back to Russia and so dumped him from the security council.
For what it's worth I don't have a major problem with Trump launching this air-strike as retaliation, but such actions need to be accompanied by a deft handling of diplomatic actions; and I have no confidence in the ability of this administration (especially with their gutted state department) to do this. Maybe if Bannon is ousted, the state department would start to get rebuilt, because that seems to have been his crusade more than anyone else's.