"The four months in federal prison not only didn't break me, it empowered me," Bannon declared. "I am more energized and more focused than I've ever been in my entire life."
As significant as Breitbart was heading into the 2016 presidential election, Bannon was much closer to a populist lone wolf in the broader conservative media ecosystem than he is today.
Trump undervalued the importance of policy alignment in personnel and many parts of his agenda couldn't be well served by simply bumping every previous Republican administration official up a rung or two.
Trump was also forced into an uneasy alliance with a congressional Republican leadership team headed by Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan, both of whom were very different flavors of conservative.
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