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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSteve Bannons Dream: A Worldwide Ultra-Right
by Christopher Dickey and Asawin Suebsaeng at the Daily Beasthttp://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/13/trump-s-man-stephen-bannon-flirts-with-a-le-pen.html
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Bannons support for European far-right parties runs far deeper than his interest in Marion Maréchal-Le Pen or the National Front. He brags about his international Breitbart operation as the platform for the American alt-right, and has for years been thinking globally, with an affinity for the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), Alternative for Germany (AfD), and the Party for Freedom Party (PVV) in the Netherlands, all of which have earned glowing coverage on the pages of Breitbart.
But the election of Bannons man Donald Trump as president of the United States has made the globalization of Breitbart and its message infinitely more plausible than it ever was before, and politicians once considered Europes deplorables are now rushing to bask in the gilded glow of Trump and Bannon.
On Saturday, Britains Nigel Farage, whose blatant and acknowledged lies helped convince his countrymen to opt out of the European Union in the Brexit vote, visited the president-elect in his eponymous Fifth Avenue tower.
Farage emerged from the meeting looking like hed just won the jackpot at one of the pre-bankruptcy Trump casinos, suggesting that the new presidents inner team was not too happy with Tory Prime Minister Theresa May, since shed been skeptical of Brexit before the vote. Would that inner team be Bannon? In our post-factual world, maybe we can say, People say
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Steve Bannons Dream: A Worldwide Ultra-Right (Original Post)
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Nov 2016
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(5,897 posts)1. The real Axis of Evil.
Behind the Aegis
(53,833 posts)2. It's been done before. The results were not good. n/t