Posted on 07/03/2017 8:36:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
ON ONE WALL of Stephen Bannon’s office in the West Wing of the White House is a large whiteboard with a list of promises the president made on the campaign trail. Most of them fit the nationalist, nativist, populist programme that Mr Bannon has done more than anyone apart from the president himself to shape, but perhaps not all: one commitment is to build a safe zone for Syrian refugees. The president’s chief strategist is a revolutionary in a Ferragamo tie, an alumnus of Georgetown, Harvard and Goldman Sachs who rails against the establishment. He talks about building an alliance of working people that will hold power for 50 years.
As a political strategist, Mr Bannon follows a template he perfected at Breitbart, the provocative website he used to run. The Breitbart strategy is to take an extreme position and hope that readers or voters will follow three-quarters of the way there. At Breitbart, for example, illegal migrants are not just people who broke immigration laws, but potential rapists and drug-dealers. Political scientists refer to the range of ideas the public might be willing to accept at any one time as the Overton window, after Joseph Overton, who codified the concept. Mr Bannon specialises in moving that window. Given that most voters do not follow politics closely, rarely switch parties and are often willing to align their preferences to those of the party or candidate they favour, Mr Bannon and the rest of the Trump White House have considerable freedom to place the window where it suits them....
(Excerpt) Read more at economist.com ...
Yes. And on top of that, an enormous amount of people are being red-pilled re: fake news.
They are illegal aliens
They are rapists.
They are human traffickers.
They are drug dealers.
They are gang members.
It is hard to know where to begin. The author ignores a pretty clear conservative agenda as evidenced by the Gorsuch appointment and stricter immigration control. Instead, the author appears to think that anti-Trump protestors getting roughed up at rallies is a significant phenomenon, ignoring the fact that most of the political violence has been in the opposite direction. The Economist perfectly reflects the thinking of the aspirational class in the U.K.: they are liberal on the US spectrum and have near zero understanding of US politics and of their own ignorance.
Reason Number 0: The demonicRATs all suck.
Not this guy:
LETTER: Impeach Trump if he doesn’t reform
http://www.courierpostonline.com/story/opinion/readers/2017/07/04/letter-impeach-trump-if-he-doesnt-reform/449438001/
I loathe the snarky Economist.
Look at how from the beginning it oozes with disdain.
“Most of them fit the nationalist, nativist, populist programme that Mr Bannon has done more than anyone apart from the president himself to shape”
Doing something to make your country better means you’re a “nationalist” (and you know what they mean by that.)
Giving priority to citizens over the hoard of illegal invaders, means you’re a “nativist”.
And looking out for the common people means you’re a “populist”.
As I said, I despise this leftist, snooty, elitist rag with a passion.
It’s getting to the point where the press are going to be hiding in the bathrooms in order to try to find a swastika in the President’s stool.
“Look at how from the beginning it oozes with disdain.”
Yep.
All the msm, they just can’t help themselves.
401K - UP!
Jobs - UP!
Energy exploration - UP!
Illegal immigration - DOWN!
Government regulations - DOWN!
ISIS Caliphate - DOWN AND ALMOST OUT!
"He talks about building an alliance of working people that will hold power for 50 years."
The Econimist. Pfft. More like The Globalist.
Perfect. In his business, Trump had to think in such lengthy time frames. His buildings need to last for at least 30-40 years to make them worthwhile.
Another anonymous hit piece.
So many amateur psychologists.
Exactly.
Very well analyzed. Brilliant.
There are some things to ponder here. The “Overton WIndow” being moved in a new direction for the first time in 100 years. The Fed “managing” the economy to produce the magic “2% inflation” that is required for them to “control” the economy. Americans have been slowly stripped of wealth, Liberty, etc. for 100 years “progressively”. A major shake up is what Is needed. Nobody said Draining The Swamp would be easy, the Swamp fights back.
Even articles which should have nothing to do with Trump often have a snide shot at him, it is ridiculous.
It is just a reminder of where Obama’s trillion dollars went.
It didn’t build your new bridge or fix your railroad. It most certainly didn’t go to someone with a shovel.
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