On the Firing of Steve Bannon

Bannon's gone

Let me try and explain this.
Donald Trump grew up in a racist home with a racist father and went to work in a racist real estate firm. Now Trump doesn't have the intellect to think deeply and as such he is largely devoid of ideology. He is driven by impulse and his impulses are to be rude, to be nasty, to stiff people and to con people.
So he's blundering and blustering his way through the primaries and managing to stay alive for 2 reasons. First that the primary system is inherently undemocratic and second because the Republican primary voter set has only a very small intersection with the set of intelligent reasonable people.
But then we also have Steve Bannon. Steve's overall goal is to destroy totally the United States as we know it. He runs a website dedicated to this, Breitbart. He then realizes that he can achieve his goals with the help of all the nastiest people in the US which he calls the "alt-right" and promises them a home at Breitbart. It's not clear whether Bannon himself is racist or anti-Semitic but it doesn't really matter if he can use them.
He observes this crazy Donald Trump and identifies him as a man with no principles, no moral compass, and sees that he can appeal to Donald's nasty instincts to both help Trump and at the same time, use Trump to destroy the US, which, remember, is Bannon's ultimate goal.
It's important to remember that Trump doesn't take advice and dislikes being told what to do. In order to have bankrupted casinos in New Jersey he must have had to ignore the advice of many people trying to help him. But Trump is so arrogant that he would rather go broke on his own that listen to others and make a billion dollars.
So then we have Charlottesville. Trump makes an anemic weak statement on Saturday, but then is pressured to read a prepared statement from a teleprompter on Monday. It was obvious that he didn't mean a word of it. But since he had listened to advice, he was furious with himself for being so weak as to take advice. So Tuesday he melted down.
After that, it became obvious that Trump himself has all the nasty views and supports neo Nazis and the KKK. But another of Trump's traits is that he can never admit a mistake. So now he fires Bannon in the hope everyone will be fooled into thinking he has cleaned house because the problem was Bannon.
Let's be clear, he hasn't. The problem is Trump himself. And he still has Stephen Miller and Sebastian Gorka who have to be two of the most repugnant men on the planet.
So there you have it. I doubt the media will get it at all and will be relieved that Bannon has gone and that Trump has turned a corner.