Steve Bannon Predicts That 2019 Will Be ‘The Most Vitriolic Year In American Politics Since Before The Civil War’

Yikes. I hope he’s wrong.

Steve Bannon recently made a stark warning. He says 2019 will be “the most vitriolic year in American politics since before the Civil War.” That’s saying something.

“I think that 2019 is going to be the most vitriolic year in American politics since before the Civil War,” Bannon said in an interview with CBS News. “And I include Vietnam in that. I think we’re in, I think we’re in for a very nasty 2019.”

“I think the next 90 days to four months is going to be a real meat grinder … I mean, the pressure on the president is coming from many different angles,” he said, adding later, “I think you’ve already seen it from what the Democrats, some of these reports they’ve been dropping here without telling anybody. I think that now they control the House they can weaponize this, they could weaponize the Mueller report.”

Bannon said he also expects the president to face primary challenges from more centrist and moderate Republicans. Some high-profile Republicans, including Maryland’s popular Gov. Larry Hogan, are mulling bids to mount insurgent campaigns against the incumbent president.

BANNON IN ROME: Mueller report release will trigger “quite a vitriolic time,” the former White House chief strategist tells @sethdoane

More from Doane’s interview airs tomorrow on @FaceTheNation ➡️ https://t.co/hdykDUi9xG pic.twitter.com/KTw0WXUntb

— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) February 24, 2019

GREATEST THREAT UNDER TRUMP: “Organizations like the Southern District of New York” probing “inauguration committee, those sorts of things”

More from @sethdoane‘s interview of Steve Bannon airs today on @FaceTheNation https://t.co/jr4ejIBFkR pic.twitter.com/GiuVuCsfX0

— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) February 24, 2019

CBS News Correspondent @sethdoane talked to former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon in Rome about the Mueller investigation and what he predicts is to come for @realDonaldTrump in 2019. pic.twitter.com/X0aZm4pUuc

— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) February 24, 2019

It’s just hard to imagine that Democrats and MSM could get even MORE wacky then they’ve been, but also…no it’s not.

Saddle up, baby. It’s gonna get wild.

h/t CBS News