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 ...
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.”...
And, you should. They are part of the leftists that Orwell wrote about in “Animal House” and “1984.” They love the concepts that “WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY AND IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH!” However, enough common folks still exists in America to see them for who and what they are and those folks will not cooperate in the destruction of this nation through fake news and the attempts to blot out America’s historical memory through revision. Everyone should go back and read Orwell. He is the most important writer of the 20th century because of his insights into tyrannical governments. Sad that he died so young.
“may”?????
That's why he's been in my tag line for many years. Today, "1984" is as relevant as it has ever been.
That's why he's been in my tag line for many years. Today, "1984" is as relevant as it has ever been.
And yes, I know my tag line quote is not from “1984”...
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