(I would place a picture of him here, but I don’t want to get sued.)
Bannon is basically Trump’s right-hand man. Hell, he may even be the shadow dictator.
Because I want people to be aware of this dangerous man, I entered Bannon’s name into Tumblr’s search engine. Ultimately, I didn’t see any articles that were comprehensive enough, so I compiled a list of quotes that show what we’re up against.
This is probably the most important quote:
“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.” Bannon was employing Lenin’s strategy for Tea Party populist goals. He included in that group the Republican and Democratic Parties, as well as the traditional conservative press.
Source: Steve Bannon, Trump’s Top Guy, Told Me He Was ‘A Leninist’ Who Wants To ‘Destroy the State’. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/22/steve-bannon-trump-s-top-guy-told-me-he-was-a-leninist.html
He is also obsessed with a book called "The Fourth Turning: What Cycles of History Tell Us About America’s Next Rendezvous with Destiny.“
According to the book, the last two Fourth Turnings that America experienced were the Civil War and the Reconstruction, and then the Great Depression and World War II. Before that, it was the Revolutionary War.
All these were marked by periods of dread and decay in which the American people were forced to unite to rebuild a new future, but only after a massive conflict in which many lives were lost. It all starts with a catalyst event, then there’s a period of regeneracy, after that there is a defining climax in which a war for the old order is fought, and then finally there is a resolution in which a new world order is stabilized.
This is where Bannon’s obsession with this book should cause concern. He believes that, for the new world order to rise, there must be a massive reckoning. That we will soon reach our climax conflict. In the White House, he has shown that he is willing to advise Trump to enact policies that will disrupt our current order to bring about what he perceives as a necessary new one. He encourages breaking down political and economic alliances and turning away from traditional American principles to cause chaos.
In that way, Bannon seems to be trying to bring about the Fourth Turning.
Source: Steve Bannon’s obsession with a dark theory of history should be worrisome. http://www.businessinsider.com/book-steve-bannon-is-obsessed-with-the-fourth-turning-2017-2.
Trump also put him on the National Security Council. This is illegal. As a Slate article reads:
According to Title 50 of the U.S. Code, Section 3021, which established the National Security Council, it “shall be composed of” the president; the vice president; the secretaries of state, defense, and energy; and “the secretaries and undersecretaries of other executive departments and of the military departments, when appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to serve at his pleasure.”
As the president’s chief political strategist, Bannon is not a secretary or undersecretary of any department. Nor, as a member of the White House staff, has he been confirmed by the Senate. So he is not eligible to serve on the NSC, and if that’s the case, he is doubly ineligible to sit on its Principals Committee—the assembly of Cabinet secretaries and department heads (sometimes including the president) that discusses and makes decisions on high-level U.S. foreign and military policy.
Source: Steve Bannon’s Presence on the National Security Council Is Not Just Terrible. It’s Illegal. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2017/02/steve_bannon_doesn_t_belong_on_the_nsc_that_s_what_the_law_says.html
Fortunately, though, Congress can remove him.
And, here’s one, last thing: Bannon said we’ll be going to war with China in the next 5-10 years.
Source: Steve Bannon: ‘We’re going to war in the South China Sea … no doubt.’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/02/steve-bannon-donald-trump-war-south-china-sea-no-doubt
This worries me, because, unless the next Presidential election is fraudulent, I can’t see Trump winning a second term, no less a third (the USA only allows Presidents to serve two terms). How will these idiots be in power ten years from now?
We Americans need to find a way to stop Trump and Bannon. Otherwise, we may be beyond hope.
