The Strange World That Is Steve Bannon.
I'm interested in any insightful intel on Steve Bannon
Some basic background:
He is genuinely interested in the declining white working middle class. Elites and bankers should not expect to see their interests served. He has implicated that he prefers creative chaos through destruction.
He is openly a national socialist. While that's literally what the Nazis were, he is not a Neo-Nazi.
One significant difference on the surface level is that while the (Neo-)Nazis are were/are antisemitic, Bannon seems to be anti-islamic.
He is militant. He is interested in a land war in the Middle East. On the other hand, his experience in foreign policy is thin. His ideological enemy therefore is "Islam" - an ism, not a state or other organisation. Given the US track-record of waging war to things like "crime", "drugs" and "terror" and losing every single one of them, this doesn't sound too good.
Bannon himself is no yes-man. He is extremely strong willed, unscrupulous and doesn't give a shit about what anyone else says. He is extremely intelligent strategic thinker, with encyclopedic information. His skills of manipulation are more than good. [Mmmm ... he sounds a bit like @mindhunter :D Sorry editor!]
An underlying coup?
My guess is there will be blood, and his hands will be in it. But I'd like to understand his thinking. For example, he must have seen that someone - now a district court - would overrule the ban of visa holders from entering the country. Then why did he do that? To test to loyalty of executive ranks? Who would respond and how?
Ideologically there's a coup going on. Bannon tends to see everything as war, and everyone not on their side is an enemy. He and Trump share the trait of trying relentlessly destroy whoever opposes them. The national media has already been labelled them an enemy, and a a US federal judge was referred to a "so-called judge" by the president. Sounds like the executive branch is on war against the Third and Fourth Estates. Expect to see retaliative measures.
The final and most important concern is the inevitable clash of the executive and legislative branches. Trump is not a Republican, and Bannon is even less. In the long run the Grand Old Party is bound to either split to the Trumpians and his opposers or disintegrate entirely. In either case Trump will lose his support in the Congress. At that point he either has to yield bitter negotiations with the Congress, win majority for his own party (not GOP) in elections or do away with the institution. Bannon knows this. What's his plan?
Any intel that sheds light to his line of thought or means to accomplish his plans would be most welcome. Thank you, and have a great day.
He's a scary son-of-a-bitch!
Those eyes really do scare me @macksby!!
"He is genuinely interested in the declining white working middle class. Elites and bankers should not expect to see their interests served."
What nonsense is this? Let's take a few excerpts from wikipedia,to see who Steve Bannon really is:"After his military service, Bannon worked at Goldman Sachs as an investment banker in the Mergers and Acquisitions Department.[39] When he left the company he held the position of vice president.[40][b]
Bannon was a founding member of the board of Breitbart News,[57] an online far-right news, opinion and commentary website which, according to Philip Elliott and Zeke J. Miller of Time, has "pushed racist, sexist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic material into the vein of the alternative right".[17]
In March 2012, after founder Andrew Breitbart's death, Bannon became executive chair of Breitbart News LLC, the parent company of Breitbart News.[58][59][60] Under his leadership, Breitbart took a more alt-right and nationalistic approach toward its agenda.[61] Bannon declared the website "the platform for the alt-right" in 2016.[19] Bannon identifies as a conservative.[62][63][64] Speaking about his role at Breitbart, Bannon said: "We think of ourselves as virulently anti-establishment, particularly 'anti-' the permanent political class."[65]
"In a 2014 speech to a Vatican conference, Bannon made a passing reference to Julius Evola, a twentieth-century, Nazi-linked Italian writer who influenced Mussolini's Italian Fascism and promoted the Traditionalist School, described by a New York Times writer as "a worldview popular in far-right and alternative religious circles that believes progress and equality are poisonous illusions."[70] In referring to the associated views of Vladimir Putin, who is influenced by Evola follower Aleksandr Dugin, Bannon stated “We, the Judeo-Christian West, really have to look at what he's talking about as far as Traditionalism goes — particularly the sense of where it supports the underpinnings of nationalism."[70] He has likewise quoted French anti-Enlightenment writer Charles Maurras approvingly to a French diplomat.[71][72]
Starting in 2015, Bannon has frequently referenced controversial, racist 1973 French novel The Camp of the Saints, which depicts immigration destroying Western civilization.[73]
He is elite,and he serves the elite. Do you know about his ties to Mercer?
I normally like and suupport your articles,but this time you have written a lazy pice of crap.
This is too important to blabber about,without doing your research.
Hey @kooshikoo - I have the welcome mat ready for you here as well :)
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Why don 't you comment at all? You have nothing to say? Except making an ad for your post?
My comments are not personal at all. I gave you constructive feedback and criticism,in an honest way.
Seriously.
@kooshikoo - this is just some brain splurge during the refresh period I promise you :) Hell, I even did a science article the other day with no references! Your right, I need to sharpen my lazy ass before next weeks full pool refresh! I agree that Bannon does have Wall St connections, but he does seem to be distancing himself from them now that he's in power.
I disagree, there is no proof of that. I think he's a a liar,just like Trump.
Anyway, Steve Bannon is thrown out, it seems:http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-steve-bannon-on-way-out-trump-20170412-story.html
With Bannon’s painting of a bulls-eye on bipartisan corruption and politicians’ self-enrichment, it is easy to see why establishment media is slinging so much mud at him right now.
Again,populist propaganda. Bannon is a politician.He has a fat salary. He is an investment banker,and a fake news creator.
THe establishment media that you are talking about, like MSNBC, is loyal to the Democratic party, so what did you expect?
And the Trump regime is incredibly impopular overall,look at the polls.
I really can't see Trump lasting the full term, but it'll be exciting to see what appears on the horizon?? Thanks for re-awakening my brain again this morning @kooshikoo and thanks for kicking my ass - I know its not personal in anyway. All we are here to do is to become better bloggers i.e. not be lazy asses! Ha ha! Steem on my friend :)
Bannon argues that the “permanent political class” in Washington “extracts” power from the rest of the country so they can make money without producing actual goods!
Producing goods is not profitable enough for the venture capitalists. What you need to realise is that there is no longer any imprtant distinction between state power and the capitalist elite,it's a symbiosis. The Trump regime is the culmination of this development,not a break from it.
don't buy into their populist lies. Telll me what they have done to"drain the swamp"? I dare you!
I do agree with that last paragraph @kooshikoo Bannon's a shape-shifter and a turncoat, he's not fooling anyone - the same as Trump!
Bannon believes Washington is controlling the money, “not that money controls Washington." The rest of the country is in a financial and economic crisis. Much of the country is almost in a depression. And, yet, you have Washington with the three richest counties bordering it seven out of top 10, the big number, per capita income is now higher than Silicon Valley. The great technology engine in the United States!
What Steve Bannon says he belives,and what he actually believes are entirely different things. What has he done to prove that he can be trusted?
Working for Goldman Sachs and running a fucked-up alt-right site does not count in his favour.
All evidence suggests that he is a racist scumbag of the highest order.
QUOTE YOUR ARTICLE:
Which raises a question: If Bannon is indeed seeing his influence wane, is there any evidence that the stench of Bannonism itself is any less prevalent in this White House? Perhaps Bannon is getting pushed out, but will that change the fact that the Trump agenda continues to reflect the ugliest aspects of Bannon's nativist nationalism in as pronounced a fashion as ever?
My answer: If Trump could decide it all himself,he would continue in Bannons footsteps. However there are indications that Trump is under pressure to moderate his policies. He has broken many of his campaign promises already,for instance in regards to trade deals with china.
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"He is openly a national socialist. While that's literally what the Nazis were, he is not a Neo-Nazi."
The nationalist part I understand, he is a racist after all.
So what is National socialist supposed to mean?? He is not a socialist in any way. He is a racist ,capitalist, populist fake news creator.