Bannon is Serious

[David Morris]

Or as Pierce says, ""Cosmopolitan elites"? Didn't know I was living in
Weimar. At least he didn't say it from atop a banquet table in a beer hall."

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 3:51 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Have read elsewhere that "cosmopolitan elites in the media" is pretty
> blatant code for something else.
>
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 1:48 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a52687/je
>> ff-sessions-steve-bannon-white-nationalism/
>>
>> In a lengthy email, Bannon described Sessions as "the clearinghouse for
>> policy and philosophy" in Trump's administration, saying he and the senator
>> are joined at the center of Trump's "pro-America movement" and the global
>> nationalist phenomenon. "In America and Europe, working people are
>> reasserting their right to control their own destinies," Bannon wrote.
>> "Jeff Sessions has been at the forefront of this movement for years,
>> developing populist nation-state policies that are supported by the vast
>> and overwhelming majority of Americans, but are poorly understood by
>> cosmopolitan elites in the media that live in a handful of our larger
>> cities."
>>
>>
>> That is the straight stuff. From the top now, right from the Oval Office,
>> the Republican Party is attaching itself to contemporary white nationalism
>> the world over. (Here, from ThinkProgress, is my old TV pal Congressman
>> Steve King, going around the world to kiss jackboots of many lands.) If the
>> Republican Party doesn't like the way that sounds, it can distance itself
>> from its president and from his handlers. Or, it can own this particular
>> political strategy lock, stock, and armbands.
>>
>
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