“Stephen Bannon brought the battle plan. President Trump brought the fight,” the New York Times reports. “A day after his secretive chief strategist laid out a hard-edged new definition of conservatism animated by attacks on ‘the administrative state,’ globalism and the ‘corporatist media,’ Mr. Trump delivered a visceral gut punch of a speech that executed almost all of the tactics that define the forever-war philosophy of the Trump-Bannon West Wing.” Bannon “has a hand in nearly every scripted public Trump utterance.” For members: A Few Thoughts on Stephen Bannon