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The ominous political genius of Steve Bannon
The Spectator ^ | August 26, 2017 | James Kirchick

Posted on 08/26/2017 8:53:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 08/26/2017 8:53:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Tripe.


2 posted on 08/26/2017 8:57:27 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

alt-strange


3 posted on 08/26/2017 8:58:28 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I agree with Bannon on trade.

I agree with Bannon that we have sent (far, far) too many American jobs to China. WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE WE DOING THAT FOR? (Hello?)

I don’t really agree with the guy, on Korea. It is a very big problem.

This article, doesn’t really focus on what Bannon was about, and seems more than a bit snide.

But I was really, really sorry to see the guy leave.

Big loss, in my view.


4 posted on 08/26/2017 8:58:46 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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1. Democrats have already fallen into that trap, but
2. its a trap they created for themselves

(Bannon was only on staff for a few months, after all...
and the D’s have been singing that racist and anti-American song for EVEN LONGER than Obama’s regime


5 posted on 08/26/2017 9:00:15 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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Bannon could become a Newt Grinrich on stereoids, i.e. a very experienced, sharp and penetrating analysis of the current political scene and potential political strategy.

I never heard of him before the campaign ( I did hear Andrew Breithbart speech at CPAC shortly before he died, and he was a brilliant analyst of the corrupt mainstream media - Sarah Palin followed him and also brought the hotel down).

If Bannon plays his cards rights, and keeps his criticisms and comments on an even kheel, he could become a foremost voice for some conservatives.

These are very choppy waters today so keeping an even kheel is harder than ever.

It’s up to him to decide what approach to politics to take.


6 posted on 08/26/2017 9:13:38 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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The grand narrative he’s spent the last several years shaping is one in which the Democrats gradually become the caricature villain of a Breitbart comments section: the party of Colin Kaepernick and Melissa Click and the screaming girl at Yale and the people defacing the Lincoln Memorial and the pundits who equivocate over condemning Antifa and the transgender YouTube activist who insists that ‘some women have penises’.

But, but, but - that's who they are now...

7 posted on 08/26/2017 9:18:51 PM PDT by GOPJ (Statues today - books tomorrow - the unmasking of totalitarian elites is starting...)
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To: rockinqsranch

Social Ineptitude Warrior.


8 posted on 08/26/2017 9:22:41 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

It is joyous to see the smartest people in the room are Maciavellian deplorables out to destroy global elitists.


9 posted on 08/26/2017 9:25:47 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Leninist party with a 15% base is repeatedly falling into Trump’s traps.

Every time they denounce him, they lose votes. I love it.

Democrats are blind, deaf and dumb not to notice the cultural disconnect between them and the rest of America.

We’re the Basket Of Deplorables and they don’t want our votes.

It worked so well for them in 2016. I’m looking forward to them taking another beating in 2018.


10 posted on 08/26/2017 9:28:26 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Pretty fair commentary from a Brit whose personal biases might have given the article a different twist if he hadn’t admitted them. I disagree with his biases and hope Bannon’s message isn’t lost.


11 posted on 08/26/2017 9:44:38 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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Genius? What has he ever accomplished except bring pornography terminology into politics.


12 posted on 08/26/2017 9:44:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why are Leftists so windy?


13 posted on 08/26/2017 9:48:44 PM PDT by Gritty (Dear Elitists: Trump is not our last chance. He's your last chance. - Kurt Schlicter)
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The Democrats are into porn: hate porn, racism porn, gay porn, tranny porn and Muslim porn.

Americans are sick and fed up with it. You don’t have to like Steve Bannon to realize the Democrats are the party of perverts, sickos and deviants.

Just like they were the party of acid, amnesty and abortion in the 70s.


14 posted on 08/26/2017 9:50:04 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bannon’s too moderate. “Get me Roger Stone”.


15 posted on 08/26/2017 10:00:32 PM PDT by Stentor
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Trumpism existed long before Bannon came on board, after Cruz lost the primary and the Mercer money, he, and Kellyanne got on the Trump Train. What he has done is help communicate Trumps vision by prioritizing and creating the messaging that has advanced Trumps agenda. It seems clear that he will have greater freedom to do that from Brietbart than under the (necessary) control of a military general COS. I don’t look for his mission to change, just for him to become even more effective in executing it.

Guys like this writer are funny. They litter their piece with factual errors, outright lies, and every logical fallacy in the book, but they end up finding reason for Democrats to be worried. I think this is part of what Scott Adams calls Trumps tranisition from “being Hitler” to being “competent, but I don’t agree with his policies”.


16 posted on 08/26/2017 10:03:24 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: central_va
Tripe.

Actually an excellent analysis of events by a left-of-center pundit.

17 posted on 08/26/2017 10:21:20 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Your Free Speech is Violence. My Violence is Free Speech.)
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Fat headed liar here. Bannon hadn’t even spoken to the President about a position let alone the nonsense said here.

Amazing the sheer arrogance at every angle.


18 posted on 08/26/2017 10:25:15 PM PDT by romanesq (For George Soros so loved the world, he gave us Obama)
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“Trump announced his candidacy for president with a smear maligning Mexicans as rapists”

That is a lie. And that is where I stopped reading.


19 posted on 08/26/2017 10:30:27 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This author is an @$$.


20 posted on 08/26/2017 10:32:57 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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