Steve Bannon Says He's 'Fascinated By Mussolini'
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Caitlin MacNeal | March 16, 2018 11:53 am
Former White House aide Steve Bannon, now in Europe touting his “populist-nationalist movement,” said in an interview published Wednesday that he is “fascinated by” Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Bannon made the comment to Nicholas Farrell, who in 2003 authored a biography of the dictator.
“You put the juice back in Mussolini,” Bannon said, referring to Farrell’s book. “He was clearly loved by women. He was a guy’s guy. He has all that virility. He also had amazing fashion sense, right, that whole thing with the uniforms. I’m fascinated by Mussolini.”
Bannon has described himself as an “economic nationalist” and “a fire-breathing populist.” During his brief stint at the White House, he pushed for President Donald Trump and cabinet officials to roll back regulations and supported Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies.
When Farrell asked Bannon whether his ideology is similar to fascism, Bannon replied, “This is all theoretical bullshit. I don’t know. Populism, fascism — who cares?”
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Read Bannon's full interview at the Spectator.
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as very inept. Good role model, Steve. 
and lexocogriphers because I never had time to drill-down much into the meat of history and language. I can tell you which base-pairs caused your cancer, but I'm old and bored with that now.
More books, please.
I well remember the first time I saw it...
He just says things to get people going, he probably doesn't even mean half the stuff he says.
He wants people to disagree with him, and then he shows how "smart" he is.
I read Fire and Fury and he's like that all through the book. Looks like he's still doing it in Europe.
Maybe he should just stay over there.
He admires snappy dressers?
Steve always had everyone beaten, himself.
Who wouldn't want a red nose of his own?
