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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat is Steve Bannon's angle?
He is spouting bad things about Trump and is talking to anyone who will listen!
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What is Steve Bannon's angle? (Original Post)
imanamerican63
May 2019
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comradebillyboy
(10,144 posts)1. Self promotion. Bannon is all about Bannon.
Wounded Bear
(58,649 posts)3. This...
They're all a bunch of grifters in self-aggrandizement mode.
Phoenix61
(17,003 posts)2. He is a self-serving POS who's 15 minutes are up.
Its what unchecked greed looks like.
hedda_foil
(16,373 posts)4. He's about the same thing as Putin. D.I.V.I.S.I.O.N.
KG
(28,751 posts)5. King of dumpster divers
enough
(13,259 posts)6. His angle is staying in the focus of media attention. It works. NT
muriel_volestrangler
(101,312 posts)7. He's building a cult in Italy. They're renting an old monastery.
Strategist Steve Bannon, credited with helping get Donald Trump into the White House, is turning his attention to European politics and seeking to support populism in the EU.
The Movement, run by Mischaël Modrikamen, a Belgian lawyer turned right-wing politician, wants to help populist parties in May's European Parliament elections.
"This is the global headquarters of the fight to defend the Judeo-Christian West".
"You're being serious?"
"I'm 100%"
...
"It's hard to know where self-parody ends, and reality begins... Rubbish, but with foreboding resonance in European politics today"