The Fall of Steve Bannon, the Gristle Icarus
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On the final night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, Molly Jong-Fast and Rick Wilson team up with The Daily Beast\\u2019s senior White House correspondent Asawin Suebsaeng, who thinks this week\\u2019s online convention felt like the best PBS telethon since they threatened to publicly execute Elmo. Joe Biden gives his big headline speech and sounds suspiciously like a U.S. president. \\u201cIt blew up the bullshit trope from the Republican party and from the Trump campaign, that Biden is some doddering senile old man\\u2026 he came out and he tore the goddamn bark off Donald Trump,\\u201d says Rick, who also had praise for an old adversary. \\u201cMichael Bloomberg went out there and just stuck a goddamn shiv in, Donald Trump. It was some sweetness.\\u201d
The team debated whether progressives in the Democratic party should fight harder to drag Biden to the Left, but they were united in their glee over the arrest of Steve Bannon.Molly describes it as \\u201ca moment I have long dreamed of.\\u201d Rick says this was his \\u201cfavorite \\u2018Fuck that Guy\\u2019 of all time.\\u201d \\u201cIt\\u2019s the gristle Icarus; it\\u2019s the whiskey necromancer; it\\u2019s Steve Fucking Bannon, the human skin tag, a gigantic sack of bile that walks on two legs.\\u201d
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