That Guy We Never Hear About

Bob Mercer's ridiculous attitudes* are everywhere you look when you get way out there to  Wingnutopia. Watch out for that guy.

Charlie Pierce points up a few things we need to keep in mind:

If you accept, as Joshua Green argues in his splendid Devil's Bargain, and as events subsequent to the election have more than borne out, without Steve Bannon, it is unlikely that we would have a President* Trump to be embarrassed by in front of the entire 21st Century. And what is also clear is that, without Robert and Rebekah Mercer, the reactionary New York gozillionnaires, Bannon would be back on Giedi Prime with the rest of the Harkonnens. 

At the moment, Robert Mercer is being sued by his former partner in Renaissance Technologies, a guy named David Magerman, who is not quite as enthusiastic about the Trump presidency* as the Mercers are. Documents are becoming public and, as Vanity Fair reports, some of those documents are well off the boy-howdy scale of revelatory.

You don't get Trump without Bannon, and you don't get Bannon without Bob and Rebekah Mercer.

*as lined out in Charlie's piece:

a) The United States began to go in the wrong direction after the passage of the Civl Rights Act in the 1960s

b) African Americans were doing fine in the late-1950s and early-1960s before the Civil Rights Act

c) The Civil Rights Act “infantilized” African Americas by making them dependent on government and removing any incentive to work

d) The only racist people remaining in the United States are black

e) White people have no racial animus toward African Americans anymore, and if there is any, it's not something that the government should be concerned with