02-03-2017, 10:33 AM
(02-03-2017, 10:25 AM)David Horn Wrote:(01-31-2017, 06:04 PM)SomeGuy Wrote:(01-31-2017, 05:38 PM)Odin Wrote:(01-31-2017, 05:15 PM)SomeGuy Wrote:Quote:And now with Steve Bannon we have an actual Neo-Nazi whispering into the ear of an easily manipulated president. There is no way this cannot end badly.
Is he an actual Neo-Nazi? Do you have a citation on that one?
I can't find the source at the moment (I should have saved the link when it was posted all over Reddit's politics board last weekend, damn it!) but he wants to turn the US into an enthno-nationalist white Christian theocracy and wage a holy war against the Muslim world. He believes all the usual anti-diversity and anti-multiculturalism white nationalist talking points.
I think I remember that talk, if it's the one I was thinking about, and while he had the Christian stuff, he did specifically disavow the racial angle, hoping it would, and I don't quite remember the phrase he used, "wash out"? "fade out"? It was not something he was going on about. He also wanted to rerun the whole New Deal thing, "throw stuff on the wall and see what sticks" was I think the rough phrase used (different interview), too.
So, an ideological guy, not a progressive, but not really a Neo-Nazi, unless we're just using "Neo-Nazi" as an all-purpose slur.
I mean granted, you're a progressive, so anything not explicitly antiwhite* probably sounds like Hitler to you.
* I know, I know, you people "mean" equality, but y'all sure "say" some pretty kooky things.
The stuff Bannon spouts is less telling than what he does. He's eyeball deep in Citizens United and a founding member of the Tea Party. I see him more as a quasi-Randian ... out to save the world for all the really great capitalists.
Is your "seeing" of him based on something other than your own preconceptions? This isn't even a rhetorical question, I am asking what you are basing this on.