The MAGA grassroots strategy

The "stop the steal" and QAnon crowd are taking over the GOP from the bottom up.

You may not hear much from Steve Bannon anymore, but he’s still active. Very active. His “War Room” video podcast still attracts hundreds of thousands of viewers and listeners, and according to ProPublica, they’ve been following his orders to take over the Republican Party at the precinct level:

When the insurrection failed, Bannon continued his campaign for his former boss by other means. On his “War Room” podcast, which has tens of millions of downloads, Bannon said President Trump lost because the Republican Party sold him out. “This is your call to action,” Bannon said in February, a few weeks after Trump had pardoned him of federal fraud charges.

The solution, Bannon announced, was to seize control of the GOP from the bottom up. Listeners should flood into the lowest rung of the party structure: the precincts. “It’s going to be a fight, but this is a fight that must be won, we don’t have an option,” Bannon said on his show in May. “We’re going to take this back village by village…