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Bannon gets it
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Contrary to Trump’s threat of fire and fury, Bannon said: “There’s no military solution [to North Korea’s nuclear threats], forget it. Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that ten million people in Seoul don’t die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I don’t know what you’re talking about, there’s no military solution here, they got us.”
I asked Bannon about the connection between his program of economic nationalism and the ugly white nationalism epitomized by the racist violence in Charlottesville and Trump’s reluctance to condemn it. Bannon, after all, was the architect of the strategy of using Breitbart to heat up white nationalism and then rely on the radical right as Trump’s base.
He dismissed the far right as irrelevant and sidestepped his own role in cultivating it: “Ethno-nationalism—it's losers. It's a fringe element. I think the media plays it up too much, and we gotta help crush it, you know, uh, help crush it more.”
“These guys are a collection of clowns,” he added.
http://prospect.org/article/steve-bannon-unrepentant
(note: his stance on trade is batshit crazy)
I asked Bannon about the connection between his program of economic nationalism and the ugly white nationalism epitomized by the racist violence in Charlottesville and Trump’s reluctance to condemn it. Bannon, after all, was the architect of the strategy of using Breitbart to heat up white nationalism and then rely on the radical right as Trump’s base.
He dismissed the far right as irrelevant and sidestepped his own role in cultivating it: “Ethno-nationalism—it's losers. It's a fringe element. I think the media plays it up too much, and we gotta help crush it, you know, uh, help crush it more.”
“These guys are a collection of clowns,” he added.
http://prospect.org/article/steve-bannon-unrepentant
(note: his stance on trade is batshit crazy)
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So race just hold off on the warmongering for a few months plz.
It'x always been the economy. Bubba was always right about that. His wife didn't get it.
He's absolutely right about it. There was a piece in the Harvard Business Review right after the election written by a Hastings law professor that just nailed this point. It's a good read.
He's absolutely right. The plight of someone who can't figure out where to hit the head is not high on the priority list for 99.99999% of the country.
They seem to want to double down.
The left has once again activated the moderate right by reacting to the bait of the alt right. It's just so fucking right out of a Bannon play book.
All this statue shit, and related shit, is not going to help a moderate Dem win election in 2020.
Then again, with our country's collective ADD, nobody will ever remember.