I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm actually starting to feel bad for Steve Bannon... Just kidding. He deserves all of it and far worse. But it is shocking just how fast Bannon's star is fading. He was on the cover of Time magazine the first week of February. That's only 10 weeks ago. Doesn't it feel like 10 years? That's not even the equivalent of a full summer. Bannon has basically gone from a Svengali-like master manipulator to a depressing old man with racist sympathies who putters around the White House while people try not to make eye contact with him.

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And now, for a final insult, Stephen "I can't go on TV without seeming like I'm reading cue cards and loudly lying to people's faces" Miller seems to have successfully distanced himself from Steve Bannon and remained in the president's good graces, if Politico's new report is any indication. It turns out Miller doesn't just look like a weasel.

While Steve Bannon is on the ropes in Trump’s fractious White House, Stephen Miller has managed to endear himself to the man emerging as the president’s most indispensable adviser: son-in-law Jared Kushner. ... In conversations with colleagues, Miller has taken pains to distance himself from Bannon, despite their ideological kinship and long collaboration issues like immigration. Miller’s associates and colleagues inside and outside the White House say he’s griped recently that Bannon tried to take too much credit for Trump’s successes, as well as objected to Bannon’s combative style.

This is so insulting to Bannon it's outrageous. Look, I don't like Steve Bannon at all, but Stephen Miller is like if you took all of Steve Bannon's gross beliefs and put them in the body of a rat. This feels like the moment in a mob movie where a low-level guy (played by a Buscemi type) turns on a mob boss to save his own skin. Now, in the movie version, Bannon would make a comeback, regain power, and end Stephen Miller in the process. So now I'm conflicted. On one hand, I don't want to see Bannon in a position of power. On the other, I don't want to see Stephen Miller happy. It's an Alien vs. Predator situation. Whoever wins, we lose.

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