It’s not straightforward to remain in Donald Trump’s good graces. However all through the years, Steve Bannon, host of the favored right-wing Battle Room podcast, has continued to show an indispensable voice for the previous president, saturating the airwaves with pro-MAGA propaganda whereas galvanizing Trump’s base into motion. On the newest episode of Contained in the Hive, Puck nationwide correspondent Tina Nguyen and Washington Submit nationwide political reporter Isaac Arnsdorf focus on how the notorious and canny GOP strategist helped Trump come out of his postelection hibernation, whether or not Bannon is extra bark than chew, and why his impending time behind bars might put a polish on his MAGA bona fides. “It’s superb clout,” Nguyen says of Bannon’s jail sentence, “for somebody in MAGA world in these MAGA instances with a MAGA viewers.”
Within the episode, Arnsdorf—whose ebook on the MAGA motion was excerpted by Self-importance Honest in April—takes listeners again to early 2021, when the previous president was nonetheless licking his wounds after his 2020 election loss. “Trump form of disappeared for some time. He was form of in political hibernation. And it was by no means clear that his primacy within the occasion would stay and that we’d get again to this place the place he’s the nominee once more,” he says. “Bannon was an enormous half in making that occur, form of entering into that energy void and making himself an indispensable voice of the motion and serving to Trump supporters course of what had simply occurred on January 6. And Bannon helped form that—an understanding of why they misplaced and what they wanted to do about it to make a comeback.”
Elsewhere, Nguyen explains how Bannon carved out a novel area of interest for himself within the MAGA-verse together with his podcast. “Battle Room is mainly his stay streaming fiefdom,” she says. “What’s sensible about his attain, relatively than, I’d say, just about each different massive MAGA persona that’s tried to place their content material on the market, is that he doesn’t actually care an excessive amount of about cash and he form of works on a schedule that may be very uniquely his personal. I believe he was one of many first right-wing media figures to really perceive the attain that one might have with a podcast like his. And mainly—yeah, it’s all over the place at this level, and it’s been fairly efficient. He goes to the place the viewers is—relatively than, say, Fox or Tucker Carlson attempting to attract the viewers to them.”
