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To: TBP
Bannon says that he has made Beritbart into a “platform for the alt-right.” (His words.)

And...so...? You say "alt-right" as if that is something horrible. The Mother Earth Jones article that says Bannon said this also says this:

Exactly who and what defines the alt-right is hotly debated in conservative circles, but its most visible proponents—who tend to be young, white, and male—are united in a belief that traditional movement conservatism has failed. They often criticize immigration policies and a "globalist" agenda as examples of how the deck is stacked in favor of outsiders instead of "real Americans."

I have no problem with that whatsoever. Do you?

He describes himself as a “Leninist.”

Context is everything, my FRiend. Of course you know that. The Daily Beast article that states Bannon said this continues with:

Shocked, I asked him what he meant.

“Lenin,” he answered, “wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.” Bannon was employing Lenin’s strategy for Tea Party populist goals. He included in that group the Republican and Democratic Parties, as well as the traditional conservative press.

I emailed Bannon last week recalling our conversation, telling him that I planned to write about it and asking him if he wanted to comment on or correct my account of it. He responded:

“I don’t remember meeting you and don’t remember the conversation. And as u can tell from the past few days I am not doing media.”


Again, I have no problem with that whatsoever. Do you? Donald Trump is the George Washington of the 2nd American Revolution. He and Bannon are in DC to change it forever, not make nice.

Now, the alt-right, for all its variations, is united around hostility to Western culture and the centrality of race. (Read “An Establishment Conservative’s Guide to the Alt-Right”.)

This is where you become completely non-sensical and contradict yourself. The reason the alt-right is hated by liberals, moderates and even some conservatives is because they are SO much in favor of Western Culture. That is in fact why they are accused of being racist. You even posted this yourself:

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.’”


Never mind the ridiculous assertion that one must hate the free market if they dare make anything else a higher priority. So what exactly do they care more about than the free market supposedly? PRESERVING WESTERN CULTURE! So here you criticize the alt-right/Bannon for "preserving western culture" above all else, while elsewhere you say the alt-right/Bannon is "is united around hostility to Western culture"

So which is it? Is the alt-right/Bannon "preserving western culture" or "united around hostility to Western culture"?

Your criticism of Bannon is threadbare and contradictory.

It's almost as if you don't have a clue of what you are actually posting, and just regurgitating a bunch of crap that someone gave you. What is your agenda? Who's bidding are you doing?

And you have yet to answer either of the following questions despite several opportunities to do so:

What part of Western culture is Bannon trying to destroy?

Was Bannon a bad pick by Trump to run the campaign that just won perhaps the biggest election upset in the history of our country?
120 posted on 11/14/2016 10:33:48 PM PST by GLDNGUN
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To: GLDNGUN

The main writers of the alt-right, the ones Brietbart itself cites as the leading thinkers of the alt-right, say that while there is much diversity among them, they are united on the centrality of race.

THAT is the problem. If you don’t hold race as central to all issues (immigration, social policy, globalism, and the like), then by the definition of the movement BY ITS OWN LEADING THINKERS, you’re not alt-right. And Bannon proudly proclaims the site he has been running to be “a platform for the alt-right.”

And the alt-right writers themselves attack Western culture. Many are supporters of the Fourth Political Theory. Almost all are what they call “identitarians.”

Apparently, many here are comfortable with that.

To say that the “conservative movement” is somehow responsible for immigration policies and globalism is to smear movement conservatives, who have fought these things consistently.

The desire to “bring everything crashing down” is worrisome. This mirrors a long-time Alinskyite/Cloward-Piven strategy. They argue that if you can cause the societal structures to crash, you will be able to replace it with a socialist regime with absolute power. (Very Leninist.)

We all want to change the way Washington works. We all want to restore American tradition, the Constitution, and values. But alt-righters are not friends of the Constitution.

In short, these are the kinds of people JimRob had previously kept out of here, until they leeched onto Trump. I don’t know if Bannon is one of them himself (I can’t read his head and heart), but he gives them a platform. He empowers and enables them.

(WILLIAM KRISTOL: RENEGADE JEW —Breitbart headline)

Nothing gets on Breitbart that Mr. Bannon disapproves, just as nothing gets on here that JimRob disapproves. If it does, he (or John) deletes it. (Nothing gets on WND that Joe Farah disapproves, and so forth.)

Just as we criticize liberals for their uncritical willingness to stand with ANSWER, Black Lives Matter, Occupy, and so many other Communist groups, we too must be careful with whom we stand.

I will not stand with the Richard Spencers and Jared Taylors of the world. Here are some of Taylor’s utterances from this past September. (Jim, I am sorry to have to post this, but we ned to know who and what we’re talking about.)

“Race is a foundation of identity. You’re a part of something, whether you like it or not.”

“When you ask whites to celebrate diversity, you’re asking them to celebrate their dwindling numbers.”

“I do not want my country to become one in which my children and grandchildren are not only a racial minority, but at the rate things are going now, a hated and despised minority.”

“Why is Africa poor? Why is, on the other hand, Haiti equally poor? … This is because they’re populated by the same people.”

“East Asians have the highest IQ — about an average of 102, 103. Next come whites at about 100. Next come Hispanics, which are a very varied population — hard to put a firm figure on them. And then blacks have an average IQ of about 85.”

“There’s been an overrepresentation by Jews in intellectuals who have tried to undermine the legitimacy of white racial consciousness.”

“Jews have their own identity. They’re not European.”

If Bannon stands with these folks, then he’s not an ally of conservatives. I hope he doesn’t but fear he does.


123 posted on 11/15/2016 10:46:45 AM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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