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Bannon, whos now ensconced in the West Wing as President Donald Trumps closest adviser, has been portrayed as Trumps main ideas guy. But in interviews, speeches and writing and especially in his embrace of Strauss and Howe he has made clear that he is, first and foremost, an apocalypticist.
"In Bannons view, we are in the midst of an existential war, and everything is a part of that conflict. Treaties must be torn up, enemies named, culture changed. Global conflagration, should it occur, would only prove the theory correct. For Bannon, the Fourth Turning has arrived. The Grey Champion, a messianic strongman figure, may have already emerged. The apocalypse is now.
What we are witnessing, Bannon told The Washington Post last month, is the birth of a new political order.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-bannon-apocalypse_us_5898f02ee4b040613138a951?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Possibly even worse! How the f**k did we end up with all these psychos? I knew that half the people in this country were idiots, but I never thought that they would go along with this madness.
madokie
(51,076 posts)I just wish religious people would leave me the fuck out of their view of how things are.
I don't for a second believe in a higher power and if I did it wouldn't be the one the Christians believe in. In my 68 years I've seen so much strife, heartache and outright badness due to some of the believers that I want nothing to do with any of them. I say if anyone wants to believe in that 'stuff' fine just leave me the fuck out of it.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Hunch says,Trump loves Bannon's trip down NAZI lane.