From the beginning, the Breitbart campaign against Paul Ryan was a central part of its campaign for Donald Trump. Nearly as much as winning the presidency itself, removing Ryan-indeed, humiliating him-was an ultimate expression of what Bannon sought to accomplish and of the mind-meld of Bannonism and Trumpism. (Meadows’s wife had a particular place of regard in the Trump camp for continuing a campaign swing across the Bible Belt over Billy Bush weekend.) A few days after the election, Steve Bannon told the president-elect-in what Katie Walsh would characterize with a raised eyebrow as more “Breitbart shenanigans”-that they had the votes to replace Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House with Mark Meadows, the head of the Tea Party–inspired Freedom Caucus and an early Trump supporter.
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