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Steve Bannon is kind of known for having a “hit list” within the political establishment. So first it was the Bush’s/Clinton’s, then it was the Koch Brothers, a
by Top19 9y ago
Steve Bannon is kind of known for having a “hit list” within the political establishment. So first it was the Bush’s/Clinton’s, then it was the Koch Brothers, and now he is saying “the day of reckoning” is coming for Karl Rove and Mitch McConnell. Sometimes I think Steve Bannon is crazy, but other times I read his remarks and am shocked by how liberal some of them seem, e.g. his recent comment that Republican plan of tax cuts to the rich is “an economic hate crime” against the working class.
- lstyls 9y agoLiberal? Have you read Breitbart? Bannon has ideas about class and economy that support egalitarianism - if you're a Christian, support old-school western cultural values, and are white. Apart from a few populist notions I don't think there's anything about Bannon that could be called "liberal".
- personjerry 9y agoPeople can have different political leanings on different subjects
- nindalf 9y agoI force myself to read Breitbart now and then, to understand what people with different views are thinking. What you've said is accurate. At the same time, Bannon displays intelligence and straight talk at times. For example, when tensions with NK started to heat up, he called Trump's "fire and fury" threat toothless because any opening of hostilities with NK sees 4 million+ residents of Seoul die within 48 hours. He was "telling it like it is", and he was fired from the White House immediately after. Now I don't agree with most of what he says but I can see how his followers admire his plainspokenness.
- lstyls 9y agoTotally agree with you here, I think I could have made my point better. He has a consistent ideology and sticks to his guns to be sure. What I meant was he is not liberal in the classical economic sense, nor in the American social sense.