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Washington Times Cheryl K. Chumley on Steve Bannon's Warroom Pandemic "GOP pigs go full 'Animal Farm' and stab Trump in the back

Scarcely had Donald Trump even packed his last bags and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was already throwing his final daggers at the president’s back, cutting deals with the Democrats, meeting behind closed doors with Sen. Chuck Schumer.
It’s the final step.
The “four legs good, two legs bad” has successfully shifted to “two legs better.”

For those who aren’t familiar: The phrases come from George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” the fictional account of a barnyard uprising against the oppressive humans. The rebellion, buoyed by the phrase “four legs good, two legs bad” — as a means of keeping the identity of the enemy simple, for the more simple-minded farm animals — is successful, and the humans are subdued. Ultimately, the pigs, who regard themselves as smarter and more worthy than the rest on the farm, begin to speak of the humans in friendly terms; begin to dominate their fellow animals; and finally, begin to walk on hind legs and surround themselves with trained guard dogs — to the great astonishment and fear of their fellow four-leggers. The propaganda push then becomes one of “four legs good, two legs better,” and a dramatic final scene sees one of the farm animals peering through a window, observing pigs and humans seated at a table, but unable to separate pig from human.