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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 10:22 AM Aug 2016

Alt Right Rejoices at Donald Trump’s Steve Bannon Hire

As Breitbart’s chief, Steve Bannon did a lot to normalize the racist, anti-Semitic world of the alt right. Now they rejoice as he joins the campaign of their king.

Donald Trump’s campaign is under new management—and his white nationalist fanboys love it.

The campaign’s new chief executive, Stephen Bannon, joins from Breitbart News—where he helped mainstream the ideas of white nationalists and resuscitate the reputations of anti-immigrant fear-mongers.

White nationalists today invest a lot of energy worrying about growing Hispanic and Muslim populations in the U.S. Turns out, Breitbart News spends a lot of time worrying about those things, too. And in Bannon, they see a media-friendly, ethno-nationalist fellow traveler.

“Latterly, Breitbart emerged as a nationalist site and done great stuff on immigration in particular,” VDARE.com editor Peter Brimelow told The Daily Beast. VDare is a white supremacist site. It’s named after Virginia Dare, the first white child born to British colonists in North America. Brimelow said he and Bannon met briefly last month and exchanged pleasantries about each other’s work.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/17/alt-right-rejoices-at-trump-s-steve-bannon-hire.html
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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
3. LOL, cali. "alt-right" is the pc way of describing...
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 10:59 AM
Aug 2016

"rabid right. wingnut right, bigot based right, hate right" and I would add, "the flying monkeys."

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
6. I guess the media doesn't think they can get away with referring to the
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 11:03 AM
Aug 2016

gang of thugs the way we do. I've also read Trump supporters swim in the lower end of the gene pool

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,181 posts)
5. I have to admit, "Alt-Right" makes them sound like.....
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 11:02 AM
Aug 2016

.....conservatives who also happen to like innovative, edgy rock music. And I don't think that's the case.

Perhaps a more apt label would be, I don't know, "neo-Nazis".

kmanbanana

(7 posts)
7. Who knows anything about Bannon?
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 11:18 AM
Aug 2016

On his Wiki page..it lists his daughter Maureen but NO spouse or other children. On Maureen's Wiki page it lists her as the "oldest daughter.." of Bannon.Nothing to be found on searching..something is being covered?Enquiring minds want to know...in the spirit of full disclosure, esp if he expects to trash Pres Clinton.

kmanbanana

(7 posts)
9. Bannon-Still an Unknown
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 12:16 PM
Aug 2016

Hi-Thx for the "profile". It still doesn't address any personal stuff, other than"working class family"I really want to know why he is SO fixated on everyone else's sexual exploits...he comes across as ahuman..no personal stuff. Who doesn't list a wife/mother on Wiki?Just a hunch..there is something to be found out. Its like he sprang from Naval service into business with no life in between or since. This lapse in his Bio may be important when he starts to attack the Clintons.And we know he will go for the lowest info he can find.

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