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Ignore the Lies: Stephen Bannon is a Mainstream Conservative
Canada Free Press ^ | 11/14/16 | Matthew Vadum

Posted on 11/14/2016 1:48:56 PM PST by Sean_Anthony

Favoring unrestricted illegal immigration, porous borders, government-mandated racial discrimination, and urging the assassination of police officers as these left-wingers do, is profoundly un-American

It didn’t work in the election cycle and it won’t work now.

The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States is proof that the “racist” smear no longer carries the sting it used to in American politics.

For promising to get tough on illegal immigration and making demonstrably true observations about the criminal scum invading the nation from the south, Trump was pilloried as a bigot.


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: conservative; donaldtrump; media; mediabias; msm; racist; stephenbannon

1 posted on 11/14/2016 1:48:56 PM PST by Sean_Anthony
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To: Sean_Anthony

Bannon proudly boasts that he has turned Breitbart into a platform for the alt-right. (I?m sure Andrew Breitbart is turning over in his grave.) The site himself identifies one of the leading thinkers of the alt-right as Richard Spencer. He recommends Spencer.

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/29/an-establishment-conservatives-guide-to-the-alt-right/

Quote:
?The media empire of the modern-day alternative right coalesced around Richard Spencer?

?In 2010, Spencer founded AlternativeRight.com, which would become a center of alt-right thought.

Alongside other nodes like Steve Sailer?s blog, VDARE and American Renaissance, AlternativeRight.com became a gathering point for an eclectic mix of renegades who objected to the established political consensus in some form or another.?

Spencer and his writers are fans of Dugin.

http://alternative-right.blogspot.com/2013/12/transitioning-from-modernity-review-of.html

http://alternative-right.blogspot.com/2013/12/transitioning-from-modernity-review-of_30.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/altright/comments/4x3fm2/richard_spencerask_me_anything/

Quote:
?My name is Richard Spencer. I coined the term ?Alternative Right?; I write at RadixJournal.com (and some other places), organize NPI conferences, and edit Washington Summit Publishers and Radix books.?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/postevery...m=.a0b6d8c60b1d

Quote:
?Constitutional conservatives can?t stand the alt-right. Conservatives ? real conservatives ? believe that only a philosophy of limited government, God-given rights and personal responsibility can save the country. And that creed is not bound to race or ethnicity. Broad swaths of the alt-right, by contrast, believe in a creed-free, race-based nationalism, insisting, among other things, that birth on American soil confers superiority. The alt-right sees limited-government constitutionalism as pass?; it holds that only nationalist populism on the basis of shared tribal identity can save the country. It?s a movement shot through with racism and anti-Semitism.?

?As one of its own, Richard Spencer, explained: ?Breitbart has elective affinities with the alt-right, and the alt-right has clearly influenced Breitbart. In this way, Breitbart has acted as a ?gateway? to alt-right ideas and writers.??

Dugin rejects the Enlightenment (the foundation of the Founders? thinking) and declares ?the West? to be the enemy. Spencer writes articles favorable to Dugin, and Bannon favors Spencer.

Now, please note that I do not think this reflects President-elect Trump?s views, although I am a bit disturbed by Donald Jr.?s offhand remark that hsi father believes in ?racehorse theory.? but as I noted before (quoting Morton Blackwell, on of the conservative movement?s best strategists), ?personnel is policy.?

Bannon will most likely try to bring in as many of his ?alt-right? allies as he can, and that will make the new Administration something I don?t think we or Trump intended it to be.

As Morton Blackwell reminds us, ?personnel is policy.?

You have to be careful with whom you stand.


2 posted on 11/14/2016 1:52:56 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

I saw Drudge’s headline about Savage’s rant against Trump’s selection of this man. Can someone tell us (briefly) what his (Savage) beef is/was? Thank you in advance.


3 posted on 11/14/2016 1:53:20 PM PST by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Ba?ve been a movement conservative all my life, a constitutionalist. I’ve been involved with Young Americans for Freedom, the Conservative Caucus, Free Republic, and many other conservative organizations. My family was involved in the founding of the Conservative Party.

I am NOT an identitarian or anything else that resembles the likes of Richard Spencer and Jared Taylor, two of the alt-right’s leading lights. (In fact, according to Breitbart, Richard Spencer is the major thinker of the alt-right.) These people are hostile to constitutional conservatives like us.

Now, look at how they describe themselves.

From the alt-right site “American Renaissance”:

“It is a broad, dissident movement that rejects egalitarian orthodoxies. These orthodoxies require us to believe that the sexes are equivalent, that race is meaningless, that all cultures and religions are equally valuable, and that any erotic orientation or identification is healthy.”

(IOW, they do not believe that “all men are created equal.”)

“Human races have been evolving separately for perhaps as long as 100,000 years, and evolution has marked their temperaments and mental abilities just as it has their physical characteristics. Different races have different average IQs, and the evidence is overwhelming that these differences are, to a substantial degree, genetic.”

?The world makes no sense without an understanding of race. Why is black Africa poor? Why is Haiti?populated by the same people but with a completely different history?equally poor? Why do blacks in America, Canada, and Britain?likewise with very different histories?show exactly the same patterns of crime, poverty, illegitimacy, and school failure? Why, on the other hand, are Asians ahead of whites on all these measures? Because race is real.?

“No coherent social policy can be based on egalitarian dogmas about race. That is why everything from education to welfare to housing to policing to immigration policy yields deformed results. If you cannot understand race you cannot understand anything else.?

“Is it harsh to explain black and Hispanic failure in terms of inherent racial differences? Whites must speak in these terms in self defense.?

And it goes on like this. To a long-time constitutional conservative like me, this is repugnant. yet someone like Bannon gives them a forum.

Jared Taylor is a leading racist. He is the editor of the site I quoted above.

From Red State:

“They believe that, if you read Richard Host (sp), if you read Richard Spencer, who leads an alt right think tank, if you actually read the people who created the term, who have been pushing this stuff, the one thing they all agree on is that we need to organize this society on the assumption that white people are genetically superior, or that white culture is inherently superior, and that we should have either state-imposed or culturally-imposed segregation between the races, no race mixing with the lower brown people. And I take them at their word, that that?s the stuff that they believe. And I think rather than poisoning or blurring that distinction, we should take them at their word and say we want nothing to do with any of that.”

“These are not disaffected tea partiers. These are people who we have a fundamental, first principle disagreement with. And any movement that has them in it, doesn?t have me in it, and vice versa.”

Now, here is what Bannon himself wrote about Breitbart.com: “We?re the platform for the alt-right.”

(Interestingly, Bannon is a former banker at Goldman Sachs.)

The alt-right also hates the free market. This is from Breitbart:

“Alt-righters describe establishment conservatives who care more about the free market than preserving western culture, and who are happy to endanger the latter with mass immigration where it serves the purposes of big business, as ‘cuckservatives.’”

(A term I?ve herd around a lot, thrown at good, long-time conservatives.)

Do we want someone so tied to people like this to be in such a prominent role?
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4 posted on 11/14/2016 1:53:29 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP

Oh noes a concern troll pokes his head up

You and Glenn Beck


5 posted on 11/14/2016 1:56:53 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: choctaw man

He hates Preibus


6 posted on 11/14/2016 1:57:18 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster

I’ve posted Bannon’s history, record, and alliances on a couple of threads now.

He’s at least willing to be a forum for the “alt-right”.


7 posted on 11/14/2016 1:58:15 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP
I have never seen a racist article from Breitbart posted here.

Can you find such articles on Breitbart.com?

"Alt-right" is a recent phrase. Maybe it doesn't mean the same thing to Bannon as it does to you.

8 posted on 11/14/2016 2:03:07 PM PST by x
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To: Nifster

“He hates Preibus”

Brief enough...LOL


9 posted on 11/14/2016 2:04:15 PM PST by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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To: All

Conservatives should recognize the nature of the game, it’s the same old game played back in Soviet days, namely this —

accept the progressive agenda or be laballed a racist, a reactionary (term that has died out somewhat) and nowadays a homophobe, no dissent is allowed.

Then another aspect of the game is disinformation, fairly easy to go around fabricating a “rise in anti-Semitism” by painting a couple of swastikas on walls. This has been done before too.

Bannon is Trump’s choice because he gave good advice in the past, or that’s my assumption. If the media want to chase down anti-Semitism, they might want to look at the outgoing administration’s attitudes towards Israel.

And if they are concerned about extremist advisors in the White House, why do many Americans not even know the identity or name of Val-Jar?

Inquiring minds want to know.


10 posted on 11/14/2016 2:21:29 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (author of "The Obama Nightmare -- Pivot to Nuance, and the Frequent Use of the first person,")
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To: TBP

Bannon left Goldman Sachs a long time ago

I listened to him on my morning drive to work. He never voiced any of the ideas that you are throwing around.

Trump won’t tolerate those views. His life has proved that. I trust Trump to make good decisions

Seems to me all you are doing is throwing gasoline on a leftist fire


11 posted on 11/14/2016 2:28:31 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: TBP

And you are sounding as panicky as Beck

Too bad you didn’t address my comments about trusting Trump. About listening to Bannon on the radio About his being out of GS for a very long time


12 posted on 11/14/2016 2:49:38 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Sean_Anthony

So the same media that told us Hillary was going to win, Trump would never make it through the primaries, that Ryan was an ultra conservative and have been wrong on just about everything is telling us Trump is picking the wrong people? Why should I listen to the people that are wrong 99% of the time over the decisions of a guy that was savvy enough to bring down 2 political dynasties, win a primary season against 16 other career politicians and win the presidency? I have basically stopped believing anything that the media tells me these days unless there is pretty good verification they aren’t just making it up.


13 posted on 11/14/2016 2:56:23 PM PST by Dutch Boy
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To: choctaw man

Michael Savage is a misanthropic curmudgeon.

He cannot be satisfied for any length of time: cannot.

This is an imperfect, fallen world. Stephen Bannon is a far better choice than any that I feared. He will be a good counterpoint to Reince Priebus.

This is the same Michael Savage who took full credit for the Trump Agenda on November 10th. (Never mind that Donald Trump has been on very public record going back to at least 1988 denouncing America’s trade policies.)

I often agree with Savage’s political opinions - but I deplore his infantile egomania.

This is the agnostic Jew who boasts about how his next book will be on God. He is neither a Jew (in the Biblical, theological sense), nor a Christian, nor a devout adherent to any religion apart from the Religion of Self.

I, as an ordained minister, am supposed to wait with bated breath for the pseudo-spiritual pontifications of this former associate of Timothy Leary the LSD Guru? This twice-married (and now separated?) proponent of family values?

(By the bye, since it is de rigueur on both sides of the aisle now to automatically assume “racism” as a motive for writing anything negative about a “Jew”: I have a Jewish forbear on my mother’s side with a very authentic Hebrew surname as well as first name: My mother, my siblings and I would have been toast in Germany 75 years ago. Fortunately, my German-Jew ancestors had already emigrated to America by that time.)


14 posted on 11/14/2016 3:24:03 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: YogicCowboy

Post #14: You’re right on target!!


15 posted on 11/14/2016 3:33:25 PM PST by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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To: YogicCowboy
By the bye, since it is de rigueur on both sides of the aisle now to automatically assume “racism” as a motive for writing anything negative about a “Jew”

Lashon hara. We're supposed to always find the good in people so we don't execute them like the pagans.

If conservatives want to win -- especially conservative Jews -- we need to stop fighting Trump on his Bannon pick. Anyway, if Bannon steps out of line, I'm pretty sure Trump will fire him.

16 posted on 11/14/2016 3:51:57 PM PST by Read Write Repeat
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To: TBP

If you are against Bannon...GO AWAY!, Glenn Beck!


17 posted on 11/14/2016 4:15:26 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Read Write Repeat

GET REAL...ALL OF YOU!!! IF Bannon was an anti-Semie, do you HONESTLY think that Trump’s JEWISH DAUGHTER and SON IN LAW would ALLOW him to be HIRED!! He is SMARTER THAN HIS HATERS....THAT’S WHY THEY HATE HIM!!!


18 posted on 11/14/2016 4:17:06 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: TBP

“alt-right” means he is a CINSERVATIVE WHO HAS A SET!!!!


19 posted on 11/14/2016 4:18:02 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

Why are you yelling at me? I’m not a judge in this contest. I don’t think Bannon is an anti-Semite; on the contrary, I think he’s extremely intelligent.

I don’t have an issue with Preibus either.


20 posted on 11/14/2016 10:42:16 PM PST by Read Write Repeat
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