{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Also in re: Steve Bannon \u201cthere\u2019s a white populist in the White House giving political advice! He says he wants to destroy the...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/153195558378/", "html": "<p>Also in re: Steve Bannon \u201cthere\u2019s a white populist in the White House giving political advice! He says he wants to destroy the government! THIS IS NOT NORMAL\u201d<br/></p><p>Pat Buchanan had a close advisory role in both Nixon and Reagan\u2019s White Houses. Grover Norquist fantasized about drowning the government in a bathtub and he was a chief architect of the Republican Revolution.</p><p>This <i>is</i> normal, if anything it was the Bushes\u2019 Christian Democratic take on the GOP (\u201dthousand points of light\u201d/\u201dkinder, gentler\u201d/\u201dcompassionate conservatism\u201d) that was the outlier.<br/></p>"}