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Four years ago, Steve Bannon watched Donald Trump declare victory in the small hours of election night in 2016, a victory for which Bannon assigned himself much of the credit and which he thought would make him historically powerful.

I am Thomas Cromwell in the court of the Tudors, Bannon notoriously told the journalist Michael Wolff in an interview after Trumps win.

Cromwell, Henry VIIIs adviser who played a key role in the English state in the 1500s, eventually fell out of favor with the king and was beheaded, the 16th-century version of Bannons banishment from the White House and Trumps good graces in the summer of 2017. Four years later, as Trump loses the presidency while clinging desperately to false claims of a stolen election, it is Bannon who wants to do the beheading. Second term kicks off with firing Wray, firing Fauci, Bannon said on his livestream web show Thursday of the current FBI director and top infectious diseases official. I'd actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England. I'd put the heads on pikes, right. I'd put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats. Bannons cohost mused about how traitors used to be hung, and Bannon remarked, That's how you won the revolution. No one wants to talk about it. The revolution wasn't some sort of garden party, right? It was a civil war. (Twitter swiftly imposed a permanent ban on Bannons shows account, and YouTube removed the video.)

Bannons call for the execution of federal officials deemed insufficiently supportive of Trump was certainly an escalation for him though not much of one, coming the day after he urged the attorney general to send federal agents to arrest Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. But hes far from alone among certain segments of the MAGA hardcore who have been crossing new rhetorical lines in their desperation to keep Trump in office.

An important divide has arrived on the right in the immediate aftermath of the election over how far to go in following Donald Trump, and how far people are willing to go to destroy others who dont follow along. At the heart of the divide is a gap between those triangulating for a future without Trump and those who are refusing to imagine one.

Those that were important before Trump like Fox News and certain elected Republicans have walked a fine line, softly entertaining Trumps wild lies about rigging while focusing more on the need for further transparency or proof and making loaded remarks about the elections processes in Democratic cities like Philadelphia.

Those that owe their influence to Trump the network of far-right Internet personalities, websites, and independent TV channels that gained popularity by riding his coattails, or figures who remodeled themselves in Trumps image have hewed to or exceeded Trumps claims.

As the days dragged on and it became increasingly clear that Trumps path had closed, influential figures such as the members of the Fox News primetime lineup began to shift their emphasis, testing out attacks on the incoming Biden administration and offering glowing praise of Trumps tenure in office. Trumps attempt to contest the results continued, but true hope that it would be successful had waned on all but the fringe.

Steve Bannon exits the Manhattan Federal Court on August 20 in New York City.

The MAGA diehards efforts to throw out the election will be futile. But their influence on the Trump-supporting base is important, and affects both the future of the conservative media and the way the Republican Party will handle Trumps most adoring fans going forward. Trumps supporters have spent the last four years being told that the president is the victim of a huge conspiracy to undermine him, and many will never believe that this election was legitimate a fact that hasnt been lost on Republicans deciding how to react to this crisis. The closest parallel could be to the Tea Party a decade ago, a movement fueled by hard-right conservative media that demanded ideological purity from establishment Republicans and threatened their seats in Congress.

The fragmentation of conservative media has empowered the loudest voices calling to stop the steal and weakened any possibility that reality will intrude on those who are consuming their news through the hodgepodge of fringe sources popular on the Trump right these days.

On the final weekend of the campaign, I asked voters at Trump rallies where they got their news. Some did mention Fox News, but I was surprised that nearly everyone I talked to emphasized other sources just as much or more. The Parrishes, a retired couple who went to Trumps rally in Hickory, North Carolina, told me they didnt like Fox News apart from Tucker Carlson, finding the hosts too egotistical and arrogant, said Mary Ellen Parrish, and that theres a lot of deception, her husband Chuck said. The couple mostly get their information online: Mary Ellen from Twitter and Chuck from YouTube, where he has discovered the "flat Earth" conspiracy theory, to which he ascribes.

Jerry Senn, 82, at Trumps rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, mentioned One America News Network and Newsmax as his favorites, though he likes Fox too. He goes online to read Bill OReilly and Dennis Pragers websites. Jennifer Justice, 34, at the same rally, said, I don't watch mainstream news. I follow a lot of people on YouTube and on alternative media, but I don't watch Fox. I don't watch MSNBC. I dont watch CNN. Some of her favorites include Steven Crowder, Ben Shapiro, and Candace Owens. Multiple voters mentioned how much news they get from Facebook.

Already, Trump family members and some of the new wave of Trump-like politicians are using Trumps popularity with the base to threaten any Republican who doesnt publicly agree with the fraud allegations. The total lack of action from virtually all of the 2024 GOP hopefuls is pretty amazing. They have a perfect platform to show that theyre willing & able to fight but they will cower to the media mob instead. Dont worry @realDonaldTrump will fight & they can watch as usual! Donald Trump Jr. tweeted on Thursday. The implicit threat of Trumps wrath worked, kind of: Shortly after Trump Jrs tweet, Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton weighed in, tweeting, All votes that are *legally* cast should be counted. There is NO excuse not to allow poll watchers to observe counting, and including a link to donate to Trumps campaign to support its legal challenges in various states.

Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, who served as Trumps ambassador to the United Nations, struck a more cautious note on Twitter, emphasizing Republican wins in the House and Senate. We all owe @realDonaldTrump for his leadership of conservative victories for Senate, House, & state legislatures. He and the American people deserve transparency & fairness as the votes are counted. The law must be followed. We have to keep the faith that the truth will prevail. This was not enough for Trump purists. Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, an archetypal member of the MAGA wave, sniped at Haley, accusing her of eulogizing Trump.

Bannons maximalist position is shared by other former Trump officials, including those of the populist intellectual variety who had been part of the effort to reframe Trumpism as a movement with a clear ideological basis. Former White House speechwriter Darren Beattie who lost his job after it was revealed that he had spoken at a white nationalist conference tweeted on Thursday, Screw Biden... if they take this from Trump it's war on the GOP that has sabotaged Trump from the beginning even as they rode his coat tails and kissed his ass. While lacking the eloquence that perhaps was exhibited in Beatties speechwriting work, the language and the message is the same: This is a war, which must be won at any cost.

Michael Anton, Trumps former National Security Council spokesperson who had gained notoriety as the author of the incendiary Flight 93 Election essay in 2016, wrote for the pro-Trump website American Greatness casting the situation as a coup.

Anton appeared on Tucker Carlsons Fox News show on Thursday to discuss the situation. Carlson like Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, the other two hosts who command huge audiences during Fox News primetime has devoted his show to openly sowing doubt in the legitimacy of the election, giving valuable airtime to the misinformation spreading through the right about the validity of the counting process. While none of the three have matched Trumps stolen language, they have heavily implied it.

But something else began happening on Fox News. During the daytime, the news division hasnt indulged Trumps election claims as much as might have been expected; another News Corp property, the New York Post, has run articles mocking the Trump familys reaction to the election.

And in the evenings, the primetime opinion hosts have also provided potential rhetorical pathways for Trump to back off.

On Wednesday night, Ingraham made a point of praising Trumps accomplishments and casting him as a martyr whose influence would only increase if the Democrats win. If they manage to succeed, how powerful is Donald Trump in the next two- and four-year period? she said. People arent going to take it. Trump and his movement, she said, would be made much more powerful, and Democrats were making a huge mistake. He will be bigger, agreed her guest Newt Gingrich. By Friday, Ingraham was all but admitting that Trump had lost. During an opening monologue that seemed designed to cheer up Trump himself, Ingraham warmly listed his first-term accomplishments and assured viewers that If there is no path for Donald Trump's second term, it doesn't mean the end of the America First movement."

Fox News host Tucker Carlson

The same night, Carlson also acknowledged that Trump might lose and focused his show on an attack on Biden as a lackey of Big Tech and a hologram who is merely a cutout for corporate interests. Carlson also previewed the kind of intra-Republican infighting that could be on the agenda, attacking Sen. Lindsey Graham despite Graham groveling to Trump for years, and pledging to give $500,000 in support of his postelection litigation for saying he is open to compromising with Democrats on immigration.

These lines signal a path forward for the right, and for Trump supporters, that is absent in the rhetoric of the dead-enders like Bannon. If you insist that Trump has won, period, and will be inaugurated on Jan. 20, period, theres nowhere to go from there.

But where is there to go for people like Bannon without Trump?

On election night, Bannons War Room show hosted a livestream atop a building across from the Capitol.

Four broadcasts were taking place from a large white tent on the rooftop: his show, Americas Voice News, The John Fredericks Show, and GTV, a Chinese-language media company owned by the Chinese dissident billionaire Guo Wengui, for whom Bannon has worked since shortly after leaving the White House. The big, brightly lit tent contained a few rows of tables, technical equipment for the livestreams, catered food and drinks, and couches arranged in front of TVs showing Bannons broadcast. Bannon and his cohosts, Jack Maxey and former Breitbart London editor Raheem Kassam, sat side by side at a table with the Capitol dome in the back of the shot. GTV was in a separate area, broadcasting in Chinese.

Two years ago, Bannon had hosted a similar event as midterm results came in; that time, his gathering had attracted bigger names in MAGA world and a clutch of reporters. This year, I hardly recognized anyone in the large white tent housing the event; the real VIPs were at the White Houses election night party, and the tier below at least got an invite to a gathering hosted by the campaign at the Trump International Hotel.

That these were not the MAGA A-list didnt reduce their enthusiasm. With my friend and former colleague who was also there to write about the event, the Atlantic writer McKay Coppins, I spoke with Harlan Hill, a right-wing personality who had carved out a niche for himself as a Bernie Sanders supporter who had switched to Trump. Hill, like nearly all of the guests, wore no mask, and when we introduced ourselves he shook our hands jovially. He was fully confident in Trumps reelection and eager to discuss it. Oh, he's gonna win, Hill declared. A hundred percent. He added, If it goes the other way, Ill eat my shoe."

Outside the tent, we encountered Kassam on a break from the livestream. Kassam had left Breitbart News in 2018 and had gone on to work for Bannon during Bannons failed effort to influence European politics. Upon seeing us, he demanded that Coppins leave, insisting that he wouldnt be fair, without being able to provide a single example of why that would be when pressed. Kassam unleashed a string of insults on the dark rooftop. We were psychopaths, he said, who actually make shit up. Though his ire was initially directed towards Coppins, he turned on me as soon as I argued with him, demanding that I leave too. I told him I found his behavior unnerving, to which he remarked cryptically that there were cameras around thus, I supposed, no reason to be unnerved. (I still dont know what he was implying might have happened in the absence of cameras.)

We explained to Kassam that Bannon and his spokesperson Alexandra Preate had both said it was fine for us to come, and he promptly turned heel and fetched Preate, who told us she was sorry but she had no choice but to back his insistence that we leave, since it was his party. Before leaving, we reminded the two of them that wed attended the event in a journalistic capacity and had never agreed to any off-the-record ground rules, which prompted Kassam to turn on his phones camera (with flash) and follow us out as we left while filming us and shouting that we were not there as reporters!

Kassams behavior was more surprising than scary. Id never seen him blow up like that in person, and, because of my work covering the right, I have known him for several years. It seemed as though a pressure valve had been released by the bitter election and the prospect of Trumps power slipping away, destroying the normal boundaries between Twitter and real life.

Later this week, both Hill and Kassam were in Philadelphia, agitating against the vote-counting there as Trumps chances of winning the election grew more and more remote. Im going to Philly tomorrow with a team, Hill tweeted on Thursday. This is war.

By Saturday, the war was lost. Along with the other networks, Fox News called the election for Biden.

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The political battle for universal health care within the White House was long, epic and personal.

"Each time I met a parent struggling to come up with the money to get treatment for a sick child, I thought back to the night Michelle and I had to take three-month-old Sasha to the emergency room for what turned out to be viral meningitis," former President Barack Obama recalled in an excerpt from "A Promised Land," the first volume of his memoirs of his time in the White House. The excerpt was published recently in the New Yorker.

"I remembered the terror and the helplessness we felt as the nurses whisked her away for a spinal tap, and the realization that we might never have caught the infection in time had the girls not had a regular pediatrician we felt comfortable calling in the middle of the night," he continued. "Most of all, I thought about my mom, who had died in 1995, of uterine cancer."

The chapter which offers an inside look into the passage of Obamacare at the end of the former president's first year in office comes at a crucial moment for his signature piece of legislation, as its future could be threatened by the confirmationof Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.

"In the middle of a pandemic, this administration is trying to dismantle the Affordable Care Act in the Supreme Court," Obama said on Twitter recently while presenting the excerpt. "Here's how Joe and I fought to expand healthcare, protect millions of Americans with preexisting conditions, and actually get it done."

The journey toward passage was messy and prone to second-guessing, particularly from Obama's closest allies: David Axelrod, his adviser, and Rahm Emanuel his chief of staff, who warned him of the political hazards: "[This] can blow up in our faces."

Emanuel warned Obama that the process of getting the bill passed would lead to unpleasant compromises and a potentially huge backlash. "Making sausage isn't pretty, Mr. President," he told his boss. "And you're asking for a really big piece of sausage."

In another passage, Obama writes about the rise of the Tea Party movement, which became harder for him to ignore, especially when it resurrected an old rumor from Obama's campaign days: that he was Muslim and born in Kenya, which would have barred him from serving as president. This lie would eventually be used by Donald Trump to consolidate the base that would help make him Obama's successor.

"At the White House, we made a point of not commenting on any of this and not just because [Axelrod] had reams of data telling us that white voters, including many who supported me, reacted poorly to lectures about race," Obama writes. "As a matter of principle, I didn't believe a President should ever publicly whine about criticism from voters it's what you signed up for in taking the job and I was quick to remind both reporters and friends that my white predecessors had all endured their share of vicious personal attacks and obstructionism."

Obama also writes about how his administration tackled the H1N1 flu outbreak just as they were dealing with two wars, a financial crisis and a push for healthcare reform.

"My instructions to the public-health team were simple: decisions would be made based on the best available science, and we were going to explain to the public each step of our response including detailing what we did and didn't know," he writes.

"A Promised Land" will be published Nov. 17, two weeks after the presidential election. The memoir will offer personal accounts of multiple landmark moments that occurred during the first term of Obama's presidency. The first of two planned volumes, it will end with the killing of Osama bin Laden.

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Many newbies in SEO and online marketing have no idea why they need certificates and what to do with them. What can be done with the electronic certificates? First, you can download them and post them on your website or social media page. It can be printed and hung in the office. Received certificates can be attached to the portfolio and sent to a potential employer. It is easy to verify their authenticity in search engines and social networks there is a verification of issued certificates. So, if you decided to pass through the Google SEO certification process, the below advantages will give you additional motivation.

Key Advantages of Google Certification

Google offers free training and certification in contextual advertising (AdWords) and Analytics. Thus, you will prove your knowledge and qualifications in the field of online advertising. Training and exams are carried out on the Academy for Ads portal. This is a learning resource for advertisers who run ads on Google.

The received certificates will be valid for a certain period:

To get an AdWords certification, you must pass two exams: AdWords Basics and an exam in one of the specializations:

Each of these exams will give you a certificate in their specialization. You can get several certificates at once if you specialize in more than one type of advertising.

You will have 90 minutes to answer 65 questions: a passing score is 80% of correct answers. If you do not have time to answer 65 questions correctly before the time expires, the exam is not passed. If you give less than 80 correct answers, even if you meet the time limit, the exam is not passed as well. Most questions have 4 possible answers. They are very simple and do not even require special knowledge in AdWords, it is enough just to think logically.

If you still hesitate if it is worth your time and efforts, take your time to familiarize yourself with the advantages these documents give:

Meanwhile, if you want to deepen your knowledge in digital advertising or SEO, we also recommend taking courses on Ahrefs or SEMrush. Lets take a look at these two learning resources and consider the best option in Ahrefs vs SEMrush fight.

Getting Certified with SEMrush

SEMrush is one of the most popular and powerful services that allows you to track the experience of competitors, conduct marketing research from analyzing site positions in the Google search or social media, find keywords, conduct an SEO audit of an online resource, etc. Such business giants as Amazon.com, eBay, Forbes, BNP PARIBAS, and others work with the service.

This full-fledged online platform has two educational sections Knowledge Base and Academy:

The platform provides users with certificates on all the available courses after passing the exam. If you havent passed from the first attempt, you can retake the exam and get your e-certificate via email. Remember, this document has an expiration date, which is usually 1 year.

Getting a certification from SEMrush is a sign of quality. The wide functionality of the system makes it indispensable for marketers, website developers, SEO, and SMM specialists.

Getting Certified with Ahrefs

Ahrefs positions itself as an SEO promotion tool, which is aimed at solving the following tasks:

Like its competitors, Ahrefs offers customers the opportunity to take the online course for studying its marketing toolkit. Besides, Ahrefs provides a video tutorial for business blogging, which may be interesting for those companies that try to improve their brand awareness.

Also, you are free to use its SEO and Tech blogs and learn lots of useful information from Ahrefs specialists. More than 150 carefully-written posts are already at your disposal for free.

In Conclusion

You can learn the basics of SEO by reading articles on thematic blogs. Dozens of SEO agencies publish interesting materials for young professionals and entrepreneurs every day. The only disadvantage of such training is the lack of a clear system.

If you need structured knowledge in the field of optimization and search engine promotion, we recommend taking SEO courses. Courses differ in the complexity of the program, the amount of information, cost, and duration. If you still cannot decide where to take courses on SEO, determine how much knowledge you need and what areas are interesting for you. Then, proceed either to Google certification courses or to alternative options like SEMrush. Invest your time only in those activities that you are interested in, or the stream of specific information will get you stuck in the first lesson. Good luck!

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COVID-19 has created the need for virtual internships as cases continue to increase. Due to this, many students have been able to apply for internships they were not able to previously, resulting in more competition between applicants. In the communications field, internship opportunities have been posted and students have been updating their resumes to increase their chances of being chosen. However, there are many ways to further improve your resume that students may not know about and that recruiters would be interested to see. Here is a list of hidden gems that could help build your resume in communications:

Being certified in Creative Cloud is a great way for your resume to stand out. Knowing how to put information out on multiple platforms is something many in the communications field are learning to do. You can get certified in most of the platforms on the Creative Cloud and all it requires is taking an exam. Adobe is in the process of updating its Creative Cloud certification exams and they should be up and running before the end of this year.

LinkedIn is known for its professional networking capabilities, but many do not know about the training courses it offers. It has more than 16,000 courses covering a range of topics, from leadership to data visualization. Many of the courses can be used to help people achieve successful careers in communications and taking one of these courses could provide you with more knowledge and skills you can use to strengthen your resume.

Google offers free tools to get better at reading and analyzing data. In the communications field, many new positions have been created that have to do solely with data and how to use it for marketing purposes. With our world going digital more and more every day, learning how to use that data to better a company would be a great skill to have that many companies look for.

The University of California offers a free course to become a SEO expert. SEO is something heavily relied on in communications, specifically journalism, because it helps create the best search engine ranking. Many companies are requiring their employees to be knowledgeable about SEO and it would make a student appear one step ahead to have that knowledge on their resume.

Canva is a site that allows you to make simple graphic designs like flyers or Instagram posts. They also have courses you can take that teach you how to build a consistent brand. This might not be a skill you can list on your resume but knowing how to build your personal brand is another way to separate yourself from others. How you conduct yourself and what you choose to show online are important, and if you build a good brand for yourself, your peers and recruiters will notice.

Communications is an ever growing and ever-changing field that requires you to be a jack of all trades in some instances. Building up yourself and your resume will help you get the internship and career you want.

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Launch a successful Shopify store with a 30-hour guide to SEO, dropshipping, design, and branding

Shopify is an e-commerce solution designed to help you build an online store. You can sell products through point of sale (POS), social media, and marketplaces. Also, youll get tools to create, execute, and analyze digital marketing campaigns.

Although Shopify simplifies the process of creating an online store and marketing channels, the way you implement the tools to grow your business is up to you. Some knowledge of design, branding, SEO, and drop shipping are essential. The best way to get started is with online training on the Shopify bootcamp course.

The six-course bundle covers a broad spectrum of lessons on how to build a Shopify store for selling private label products, best practices on search engine optimization (SEO) to rank your online store, and dropshipping. Lets explore the details of this bundle:

Each course in the Shopify bootcamp bundle, are taught by instructors from Skill Success. Most of these courses are short, and you can finish them in a week. If you have a basic knowledge of Shopify, my recommendation is to do the design and branding masterclass.

Youll learn how to leverage your brand with social media, photos, and videos. Just having a beautiful online store is not enough. You must persuade visitors with your copywriting skills. Heres a nice video explanation of this topic.

Online shopping is always convenient, but this year its a necessity, and thats why having an e-commerce site will help your business grow. All you need is time and a bit of practice. You dont have to learn any programming to create the website.

So get yourself enrolled in the Shopify bootcamp course and start creating your website. The deal is available for only $30.

Your Shopify store is up-and-running, but it's missing something. That's right, your store needs security.

With his M.Optom Degree in Eye Care Speciality, Rahul worked as a lecturer for many years in the college. Writing and teaching others is always his passion. He now writes about technology and make it digestible for readers who don't understand it well.

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