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NYT Op-Ed: Establishment ‘Conservative Citadels’ Confront the ‘Powerful Bannon Wing of the Republican Party’

Bari Weiss writes in the New York Times about the political conundrum facing right-leaning establishment think tanks in the age of Trump. These old institutions face the potential loss of influence in maintaining their antipathy to candidate and now-President Trump. And they are also struggling to address the populist economic nationalist movement led by former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who recently gave a foreign policy speech at the respected establishment think tank the Hudson Institute.

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Bloomberg: Breitbart Money Man Mercer Steps Back From RenTech, Not Politics

Robert Mercer, the hedge fund titan who financed the nationalist movement that elected President Trump, stepped down from the helm of his investment firm amid intense criticism. But that doesn’t mean he’s finished with politics. Mercer is limiting his duties to research at the firm partly to allow him to increase his political involvement unencumbered by his business responsibilities, said a person familiar with the matter.

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Randi Weingarten: Bannon a ‘Formidable Adversary’ Because He ‘Hates Crony Capitalism,’ Fights for ‘Working People’

Then-White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon reportedly had a previously unreported one-on-one meeting with American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, who came away from the talk convinced that Bannon is a “formidable adversary” because he genuinely and passionately “hates crony capitalism” and “sees the world as working people versus elites.”

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