Now that Steve Bannon has been ousted from his perch at Breitbart News, I hope that conservatives will unify and select viable, thoughtful candidates for November’s election. There has been some exciting policy momentum in 2017, on both domestic and foreign fronts. I hope conservatives will continue to build on this momentum and also learn how to communicate the importance of their work to voters. I wrote some thoughts at CNN about this fork in the road for conservatives to move past the Bannon-style warpath and unify behind a conservative agenda. Bannon’s attempt at internal guerilla warfare is harmful for the future of the conservative movement. If Bannon helped sound the war cry that led to Trump’s victory, he failed to understand that to everything there is a season, including peace. If conservatives are smart, Bannon’s departure will be a turning point to move beyond the contentious climate of a conservative civil war launched amidst the 2016 election among the Never Trump “Establishment” types, the bomb-throwing, anti-establishment Bannonites and the growing body of conservative Trump supporters. Congress hangs in the balance with November’s elections, and ongoing fracturing will be a stumbling block to advancing a conservative policy agenda. Trump was…
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