Also in re: Steve Bannon “there’s a white populist in the White House giving political advice! He says he wants to destroy the government! THIS IS NOT NORMAL”

Pat Buchanan had a close advisory role in both Nixon and Reagan’s White Houses. Grover Norquist fantasized about drowning the government in a bathtub and he was a chief architect of the Republican Revolution.

This is normal, if anything it was the Bushes’ Christian Democratic take on the GOP (”thousand points of light”/”kinder, gentler”/”compassionate conservatism”) that was the outlier.