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