Posted on 12/21/2018 4:55:32 PM PST by OddLane
He is the “Trump before Trump,” said Steve Bannon. During a presentation in Zurich this past spring, the ex-adviser of the U.S. President was not referring to Silvio Berlusconi or Viktor Orbán, veteran European populists well known on the international stage. Bannon was talking about Christoph Blocher, a man from a small, neutral country in the heart of Europe best known for its banks, cheese, and stability. “Actually everything began in Switzerland in 1992,” added the American populist mastermind.
Bannon was not wrong. Of all places, it was Switzerland that, almost 30 years ago, hosted the dress rehearsal for what is shaking up the Western world right now...
(Excerpt) Read more at the-american-interest.com ...
no he wasn’t
such BS
The condensation and contempt for the common man fairly drip from this article.
The idea that the common man has a voice *in government* is seen as especially pernicious.
Yes. Leftism is Elitism.
Switzerland (embracing populism), and Japan (banning Mohammedans) - both, significantly, relatively homogeneous populations - have lessons for the world, which the globalist dictators will studiously ignore.
He defines him as a threat to “democracy,” which apparently means employing the means of democracy to enact the will of the people.
Uh, Switzerland is far from “homogeneous”, to the point of the different cantons having their own individual languages. Racially homogeneous, perhaps. Culturally, no.
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