I've notice repeating allusions to Shakespeare through this, and classic Greek literatures as well.
Hamlet, in particular, is astonishingly similar
At first I thought the team member influenced by those was Sessions.
Am now 100% convinced it's this man.
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/140475/steve-bannon-brains-trump-white-house-read-three-books
Bannon called this period in American history a "Fourth Turning".
https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Turning-American-Prophecy-Rendezvous/dp/0767900464/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537751715&sr=8-1&keywords=fourth+turning+book
"This astonishing book will change the way you see the world – and your place in it.
With startling originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about a new American era that will begin just after the millennium.
William Strauss and Neil Howe base this vision on a provocative new theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four eras–or "turnings"–that last about twenty years and that always arrive in the same order.
First comes a High, a period of confident expansion as a new order takes root after the old has been swept away. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion against the now-established order. Then comes an Unraveling, an increasingly troubled era in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis–the Fourth Turning–when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. Together, the four turnings comprise history's seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth.
Strauss and Howe locate today's America as midway through an Unraveling, roughly a decade away from the next era of Crisis. In a brilliant analysis of the post-World War II period, they show how generational dynamics are the key to understanding the cycles of American history. They draw vivid portraits of all the modern generations: the can-do G.I.s, the mediating Silent, the values-absorbed Boomers, the pragmatic 13ers, and the child Millennials. Placed in the context of history's long rhythms, the persona and role of each generation become clear–as does the inevitability of the coming Crisis.
Whatever your stage of life, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for America's next rendezvous with destiny."
These people are going to be STRANGLED by the fine points of the law.
Consider:
1) Multiple expert lawyers on POTUS' side
2) Extensive military intelligence & JAG with knowledge of military justice system
3) Intelligence white hats with access to unbelievable computing power to run every conceivable simulation
THEY KNOW WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN.
EVERYTHING IS PLANNED.
That's why we have been repeatedly told to TRUST THE PLAN.
Refer to Shakespeare's Hamlet. Hoisted by their own petards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoist_with_his_own_petard
I trust these men implicitly. Great patriots, all.
These few are just a sample of people for whom we may be grateful.
Praying anons, pray for their safety and overwhelming success daily.
Am now anxious to read "The Fourth Turning".
How many have now been publicly repudiated?
What makes a good movie?
http://time.com/5086254/trump-steve-bannon-book/
https://www.axios.com/the-one-book-to-understand-steve-bannon-1513300787-22afb8da-9520-4884-a14d-37a16a995adc.html
Nobody's mentioned one book that's been seminal to Bannon's thinking. It's called 'The Revolt of the Elites' and in it, the author Christopher Lasch argues that the "chief threat" to American democracy and Western culture comes not from the masses, but "from those at the top of the social hierarchy."
Bannon tells me the book, published in 1995, is one of his favorites explaining the current moment. He says the 2016 election is a testament to Lasch's predictive powers.
Key passages from the book that echo through Bannon's thinking and the Trump playbook:
"Today it is the elites…those who control the international flow of money and information, preside over philanthropic foundations and institutions of higher learning, manage the instruments of cultural production and thus set the terms of public debate…that have lost faith in the values…of the West."
"The new elites are in revolt against 'Middle America,' as they imagine it: a nation technologically backward, politically reactionary, repressive in its tastes, smug and complacent, dull and dowdy."
"Those who covet membership in the new aristocracy of brains tend to congregate on the coasts, turning their back on the heartland and cultivating ties with the international market in fast-moving money, glamour, fashion, and popular culture."
"The parties no longer represent the opinions and interests of ordinary people. The political process is dominated by rival elites committed to irreconcilable ideologies."
"Many [coastal elites] have ceased to think of themselves as Americans in any important sense, implicated in America's destiny for better or worse…In Los Angeles the business and professional classes now see they city as the 'gateway' to the Pacific Rim. Even if the rest of the country is on the verge of collapse, they say, the West Coast 'just can't stop growing…' The privileged classes in Los Angeles feel more kinship with their counterparts in Japan, Singapore, and Korea than with most of their own countrymen."
"We have become far too accommodating and tolerant for our own good….Compassion has become the human face of contempt…Today we accept double standards — as always, a recipe for second-class citizenship — in the name of humanitarian concern."
"Recent experience does not bear out the expectation that technological innovations…will create an abundance of skilled jobs…their most important effect, on the contrary, is to widen the gap between the knowledge class and the rest of the population…"
"The kind of information [democracy] needs can be generated only by debate."
Perhaps the book's most prescient passage: "At this point in our history the best qualification for high office may well be a refusal to cooperate with the media's program of self-aggrandizement. A candidate with the courage to abstain from 'debates' organized by the media would automatically distinguish himself from the others and command a good deal of public respect."