2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSteve Bannon, Trump's Top Guy, Told Me He Was 'A Leninist' Who Wants To ‘Destroy the State’
Steve Bannon, Trump's Top Guy, Told Me He Was 'A Leninist' Who Wants To Destroy the Stateby Ronald Radosh at the Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/22/steve-bannon-trump-s-top-guy-told-me-he-was-a-leninist.html
"SNIP.............
Then we had a long talk about his approach to politics. He never called himself a populist or an American nationalist, as so many think of him today. Im a Leninist, Bannon proudly proclaimed.
Shocked, I asked him what he meant.
Lenin, he answered, wanted to destroy the state, and thats my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of todays establishment. Bannon was employing Lenins 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 dont remember meeting you and dont remember the conversation. And as u can tell from the past few days I am not doing media.
...............SNIP"
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)A Leninist?!?!?
baldguy
(36,649 posts)oh, wait....
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)though he's definitely authoritarian and probably is just a clone of his father, a John Bircher nationalist fascist who admired Nazi Germany's economic efficiency. A whole lot in common with Bannon actually. In any case, Charles ALSO is very much an anti-statist and doing his best to destroy our government.
He's been seeding and watering anti-establishment resentments and beliefs that our government doesn't represent the people and fails at everything it does try to do, which is nothing. Sound familiar?
Indpndnt
(2,391 posts)They are there to obstruct and destroy. Lovely. How very patriotic.
Maven
(10,533 posts)These hyenas have been working on dismantling civil society for decades. The only difference is that now they are brazen enough to say what they mean in no uncertain terms.
paleotn
(17,931 posts)...fat, doughy white guys?
Go ahead, Bannon. Do your worst, but it won't turn out like you think it will. Fat, doughy white guys in power will soon become an endangered species.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)Capitalism and the bourgeoisie. Bannonis an ignoramus.