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Channeling <em>Breitbart</em> From Behind the Resolute Desk

When President Trump describes his aides as “globalists,” he’s adopting the language of outsiders even as he sits in the Oval Office.
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Steve Bannon may have vacated the premises, but it appears Breitbartism is alive and well in the Trump White House.

Over the past two days, Axios—a scoopy news site whose reporters are among the best-sourced in Trumpworld—has published two inside-the-West-Wing stories that portray a president who has fully internalized Breitbart’s framing of national politics in America today.

On Sunday, on a recent Oval Office meeting between President Trump and a gaggle of top aides—including economic adviser Gary Cohn, then-chief-strategist

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