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Steve Bannon: the (new) Real Commander and Chief of the USA.

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Steve Bannon: the (new) Real Commander and Chief of the USA.

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Why this man is so feared
Mr Bannon has spoken about the US' "crisis of capitalism" and the erosion of "Judeo- Christian values" which have led to the rise of socialism, secularism and pluralism that have altered the social and political fabric of America.
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Mr Bannon has spoken about the US' "crisis of capitalism" and the erosion of "Judeo- Christian values" which have led to the rise of socialism, secularism and pluralism that have altered the social and political fabric of America.PHOTO: THE WASHINGTON POST
PUBLISHED: FEB 5, 2017, 5:00 AM SGT
Steve Bannon, Trump's chief strategist and right-wing media mogul, is seen as the real power behind the throne
Tan Dawn WeiAssistant Foreign Editor
Two days ago, Time magazine put a severely sullen-looking man in a thinker's pose on its cover, dubbing him The Great Manipulator.

"Is Steve Bannon the second most powerful man in the world?" its headline inside asks. Going by the first two weeks of Mr Donald Trump's presidency, there seems little doubt the answer is yes.

Some would argue that, short of being authorised to sign executive orders, Mr Trump's chief strategist is the world's most powerful man.


"President Bannon?" questions the New York Times in another headline last week, after the 63-year-old former executive chair of far-right news website Breitbart News was given a seat at the National Security Council table, an unprecedented move that has shocked former and current White House officials from both political parties.

That elevation in status sealed suspicions of Mr Bannon's influence over the politically inexperienced President, sending the hashtag #StopPresidentBannon to the top of Twitter's trending chart.

In his own words

ON THE MEDIA

The media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

ON CHINA

We're going to war in the South China Sea in five to 10 years. There's no doubt about that. They're taking their sandbars and making basically stationary aircraft carriers and putting missiles on those. They come here to the United States in front of our face - and you understand how important face is - and say it's an ancient territorial sea.

ON U.S. POLITICAL PARTIES

We don't really believe there is a functional conservative party in this country and we certainly don't think the Republican Party is that. We tend to look at this imperial city of Washington, this boom town, as they have two groups, or two parties, that represent the insiders' commercial party, and that is a collection of insider deals, insider transactions and a budding aristocracy that has made this the wealthiest city in the country.

ON RADICAL ISLAM

I think we are in a crisis of the underpinnings of capitalism and, on top of that, we're now, I believe, at the beginning stages of a global war against Islamic fascism. I believe you should take a very, very, very aggressive stance against radical Islam.

ON POWER

Darkness is good. Di¢k Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power.

ON RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN

At the end of the day, I think that Putin and his cronies are really a kleptocracy, that are really an imperialist power that want to expand.
By mid-week, worried lawmakers had fought back, with the Democrats introducing legislation to kick Mr Bannon out of the council in a bid to keep politics separate from security matters.

Whether or not they succeed, Mr Bannon's grip on policymaking - and his determination to disrupt the old political establishment and reinstate "enlightened capitalism" in the US will not let up.

While the world reeled from the announcement last week that refugees, and citizens of seven Muslim- majority countries were banned from entering the US, it emerged that Mr Bannon was behind the directive to subject US green card holders to scrutiny as well, overriding recommendations by the Department of Homeland Security to leave them alone.

So how did an Irish Catholic boy from a working-class, pro-union Democratic family in Virginia become the flag-bearer of the "alt- right" movement and the key figure in the Oval Office drafting some of the most conservative national policies? As attention is heaped on Mr Bannon, who has been labelled a "white supremacist" since he became chief executive of Mr Trump's presidential campaign last August, he has mostly kept away from the media, declining to give interviews.

But there is no mystery over his complex world view as journalists piece together a picture of the man and his ideas through past interviews, radio shows and documentaries he has produced.

"I'm not a white nationalist, I'm a nationalist. I'm an economic nationalist," he told The Hollywood Reporter in a rare interview last November, before the presidential election. "The globalists gutted the American working class and created a middle class in Asia. The issue now is about Americans looking to not get f...ed over."

The Virginia boy, who spent seven years as an officer in the US Navy, transcended his own blue-collar roots by going to Harvard Business School in 1985. He already had a master's degree in national security studies from Georgetown University. He became an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, then started his own boutique investment bank specialising in media. One of the TV shows he had a stake in - and ended up profiting tremendously from - was the hit sitcom Seinfeld.

Mr Bannon told Bloomberg his interest in politics did not surface until he was serving in the Navy and became disillusioned by then President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, although he did not say why.

"I became a huge (Ronald) Reagan admirer. Still am. But what turned me against the whole establishment was coming back from running companies in Asia in 2008 and seeing that (George W.) Bush had f...ed up as badly as Carter. The whole country was a disaster."

CLASH OF CIVILISATIONS

Just the year before, Mr Bannon had written a proposal for a three- part movie with the working title, Destroying The Great Satan: The Rise Of Islamic Fascism in America, warning of radical Muslims taking over the US and turning it into the "Islamic States of America".

The Washington Post, which got hold of this proposal, last Friday reported that the eight-page draft "offered an early glimpse of Bannon's belief that the West and 'supremacist' Islam are headed for a 'fundamental clash of civilisations', as the outline said".

It is but one more example that the media cites as indicative of Mr Bannon's bleak, antagonistic outlook, which he essentially delivered through Mr Trump's angry "American carnage" inaugural speech - one he supposedly penned.

Mr Bannon has spoken about the country's "crisis of capitalism" and the erosion of "Judeo-Christian values" which have led to the rise of socialism, secularism and pluralism that have altered the social and political fabric of America.

"I'm a Leninist," he apparently told historian Ronald Radosh at a party in 2013, referring to the Russian revolutionary. "Lenin 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," Mr Bannon reportedly said.

President Trump is supposedly the tool in achieving his vision, political watchers argue. Mr Trump was given a platform on Mr Bannon's Breitbart News Daily radio show early on in the presidential campaign, and steered - through a combination of flattery and leading questions by Mr Bannon - to state far-right views.

Mr Bannon has tried it before. Politico magazine reported that he had cultivated populist former Alaska governor Sarah Palin as a potential anti-establishment presidential candidate before he turned his sights on Mr Trump.

If the first two weeks of the new Trump administration are any indication, Mr Bannon has struck gold. As Time magazine said, quoting a veteran Republican: "It's already over, and Bannon won."

A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on February 05, 2017, with the headline 'Why this man is so feared'.
http://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/why-this-man-is-so-feared
 
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Bannon is right on all fronts. I wish him well.

If the whites don't take a stand they will be swamped and will become irrelevant within the current generation.

The world needs whites in charge because they alone bring progress, technology and order to the world.
 
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