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originally posted by: spiritualzombie
Analysis: Breitbart's Steve Bannon Leads the 'Alt Right' to the White House
Source: www.nbcnews.com...
For the last six months, Republican leaders walked a careful line supporting Donald Trump. They supported his campaign and loved his running mate, Mike Pence, but they didn't agree with his positions on banning Muslims or mass deportations, or with the far-right figures who backed them.
That line was easy enough to maintain when it was just campaign rhetoric. But now Trump is signaling that the far right wing of the party will be going with him to the White House, where it will have a chance to influence policy, as well.
Steve Bannon, former president of the incendiary Breitbart News and more recently chief executive of Trump's campaign, is taking on a role as "chief strategist and senior counselor." Bannon's ascension is the clearest sign yet that Trump will maintain his ties to the populist white nationalism that helped propel him to the White House against overwhelming opposition from party leaders and traditional media.
The alt-right is fundamentally based on White Nationalism. It is associated with white supremacy, anti feminism, homophobia, Islamophobia, and anti-Semitism.
I find this sudden turn toward mainstream White Nationalism extremely disturbing on so many levels. If our new President-elect is indeed filling the White House with people who subscribe to such hateful ideology, and are actively pushing for policies such as racial profiling and "stop and frisk", which are largely criticized as being programs that increase the racial divide and promote racial discrimination, or pushing policies to ban Muslims, or extremely aggressive policy such as mass deportation and incarceration that largely targets Hispanics....
How does any of this gel with a nation that celebrates diversity and equality?
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: spiritualzombie
CNN was so jealous over this low level, Alt-right media guy, who was "suddenly seated within the inner-circle, of the most powerful nation on Earth".
If it makes CNN mad, no matter how much Bannon is inappropriate for the job, I'm all for it!
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
originally posted by: spiritualzombie
How does any of this gel with a nation that celebrates diversity and equality?
Where have you been the last year of so? This country just kicked diversity and equality to the curb.
originally posted by: fencesitter85
It's worrying how many Bannon supporters are in here. Whether you're left or right, Breitbart is a shamefull cesspool of ignorance and hatred.
originally posted by: fencesitter85
It's worrying how many Bannon supporters are in here. Whether you're left or right, Breitbart is a shamefull cesspool of ignorance and hatred.
originally posted by: fencesitter85
It's worrying how many Bannon supporters are in here. Whether you're left or right, Breitbart is a shamefull cesspool of ignorance and hatred.
originally posted by: underwerks
originally posted by: fencesitter85
It's worrying how many Bannon supporters are in here. Whether you're left or right, Breitbart is a shamefull cesspool of ignorance and hatred.
As with any media, as long as its your own brand of ignorance, people don't care.