Bannon goes onto say that Chris Christie didn't get a cabinet position because he wasn't there for Bannon and Trump during the Access Hollywood crisis. Now, upon first glance this might not seem like a big deal. Politicians wanting loyalty from their teams is neither new nor inherently wrong. But what is wrong, and even more than that, dangerous, is the insistence upon blind fealty. Donald Trump himself is an egotistical nightmare who seems to be addicted to playing (semi-literal) Russian Roulette with the lives of millions of Americans. The only hope for that person to not be a disastrous leader is for his advisors to successfully and responsibly reign in his myriad bad tendencies. We've seen time and time again during these first 220-ish days of the administration that nobody has been able to reign in Trump, and this Bannon quote is exactly why. Trump is so insecure that criticizing him seems to make you an enemy in his eyes, and as long as that's the case, and blind loyalty is the thing that is most rewarded, there will never be a successful moderating influence on him. Instead sycophants will rise to the top and only encourage his worst instincts. We won't just be getting normal shitty Trump, we'll be getting a Trump whose shittiness is magnified by the encouragement of the people he surrounds himself with.

And lest you think that this problem left the White House with Bannon, we are watching it happen to Gary "Globalist" Cohn right now. Cohn, an advisor that Bannon butted heads with in the White House, was being considered for Fed Chair, but then expressed concern about Donald Trump's response to Charlottesville. Now? Cohn is reportedly out of consideration and according to the Wall Street Journal, the reasoning isn't even being hidden.

The shift in Mr. Cohn’s prospects for the top Fed job arises largely from his criticism of Mr. Trump’s response to the violence in Charlottesville, Va., the people familiar with the matter said.

As long as Trump punishes those on his team who dissent, fewer and fewer will dissent. And if this president's policy instincts have taught us anything it's that this is good news for Stephen Miller and bad news for... well everyone else in the country.

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