Posted on 02/12/2017 2:19:20 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
I used to host a radio show with Steve Bannon. Yes, that Steve Bannon.
It was a Catholic radio show, and we talked about life and faith and how you integrate the two. It aired weekly over the course of a number of months in 2012, and I do remember we had one political show around Election Day, in which we talked with Steve's friend Pat Caddell (formerly of the Jimmy Carter White House) about Catholics and the political culture of both parties.
"Surreal" would seem the appropriate word as I've watched an array of successive news stories and commentaries about Bannon, who has become the "Darth Vader" figure of the Donald Trump administration. As one young editor in the National Review office observed to me, it seems as if Bannon couldn't do anything at this point that wouldn't be viewed as sinister.
The most pernicious development in this narrative is an idea
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Interesting insight.
"As many have noted, Bannon is concerned about a radical secularism that has become a rival religion, and small practical things play no small role in providing an alternative to it."
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