Streetfighter, at liberty and out loud
Breitbart's Steve Bannon calls out GOP elite on 60 Minutes.
Consider the battle gauntlet cast down.
After a year at Donald Trump's side in official capacities -- first as campaign advisor, then as West Wing chief strategist -- Steve Bannon resigned from the Trump White House. His swaggering exit promise was to be the president's outside "wing man," fighting, through his writings, for the Make America Great Again agenda candidate Trump had thunderously advocated.
That same, inspirational agenda had brought to its feet arena crowds across the country. Tens of millions of enthusiastic voters from every walk of life and demographic description gave it heartfelt general election endorsement.
But, Bannon had come to suspect that populist ambition was being sidelined by disloyal White House and Deep State functionaries, who sought instead the populist president's downfall. Defiantly vowing to perpetuate and even amplify pro-Trump enthusiasm through accelerated alternative media efforts, Bannon returned to his post as chief executive of Breitbart, the increasingly influential, news and opinion website from which he'd originally come to the campaign.
With iron-eyed confidence and jaw jutted, a fight-fit Bannon appeared on CBS's 60 Minutes, on Sunday, September 10. An online partial transcript provided by the network offered these quotes:
"The Republican establishment is trying to nullify the 2016 election," Bannon charged. To illustrate, he disclosed that in one early meeting, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell insisted that he "didn't want to hear any more of this 'Drain the swamp' talk."
Of McConnell, House Majority Leader Paul Ryan, economic adviser Gary Cohn, and unenumerated other colleagues, Bannon asserted: "They do not want Donald Trump's populist, economic nationalist agenda to be implemented. It's very obvious."
It may turn out, though, that career Washington politicians resistant to burgeoning popular sentiment will soon get the boot from voters weary of (to borrow a Trump phrase) "do-nothing politicians."
According to Bannon, there is but one determinative question now before citizens: "Is it going to be a left-wing populism, or a right-wing populism?"
"That is the question that will be answered in 2020," he predicted. His assurance indicated on which side he would wager.
Unrelated addendum: I watched a live stream of the same Sunday's Portland, Oregon confrontation between Patriot Prayer Rally attendees and the black-clad, masked rioters of Antifa.
One street-side observer identified himself to an interviewer as an ACLU donor, and free speech supporter. The reporter asked whether the Patriot Prayer crowd had a right to assemble there. The onlooker demurred: "That's above my pay grade."
Actually, it was not. The Constitution guarantees each citizen the right to speak. Such liberty is precious, not subject to withdrawal by bureaucrats. That quintessential American truth should never be discounted. It recognizes our freedom to express ourselves however we please, and with deference to no objector.
Affirming as much, then, was not beyond the interviewed observer's authority. It was exactly of it.
Breitbart's Steve Bannon calls out GOP elite on 60 Minutes.
Consider the battle gauntlet cast down.
After a year at Donald Trump's side in official capacities -- first as campaign advisor, then as West Wing chief strategist -- Steve Bannon resigned from the Trump White House. His swaggering exit promise was to be the president's outside "wing man," fighting, through his writings, for the Make America Great Again agenda candidate Trump had thunderously advocated.
That same, inspirational agenda had brought to its feet arena crowds across the country. Tens of millions of enthusiastic voters from every walk of life and demographic description gave it heartfelt general election endorsement.
But, Bannon had come to suspect that populist ambition was being sidelined by disloyal White House and Deep State functionaries, who sought instead the populist president's downfall. Defiantly vowing to perpetuate and even amplify pro-Trump enthusiasm through accelerated alternative media efforts, Bannon returned to his post as chief executive of Breitbart, the increasingly influential, news and opinion website from which he'd originally come to the campaign.
With iron-eyed confidence and jaw jutted, a fight-fit Bannon appeared on CBS's 60 Minutes, on Sunday, September 10. An online partial transcript provided by the network offered these quotes:
"The Republican establishment is trying to nullify the 2016 election," Bannon charged. To illustrate, he disclosed that in one early meeting, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell insisted that he "didn't want to hear any more of this 'Drain the swamp' talk."
Of McConnell, House Majority Leader Paul Ryan, economic adviser Gary Cohn, and unenumerated other colleagues, Bannon asserted: "They do not want Donald Trump's populist, economic nationalist agenda to be implemented. It's very obvious."
It may turn out, though, that career Washington politicians resistant to burgeoning popular sentiment will soon get the boot from voters weary of (to borrow a Trump phrase) "do-nothing politicians."
According to Bannon, there is but one determinative question now before citizens: "Is it going to be a left-wing populism, or a right-wing populism?"
"That is the question that will be answered in 2020," he predicted. His assurance indicated on which side he would wager.
Unrelated addendum: I watched a live stream of the same Sunday's Portland, Oregon confrontation between Patriot Prayer Rally attendees and the black-clad, masked rioters of Antifa.
One street-side observer identified himself to an interviewer as an ACLU donor, and free speech supporter. The reporter asked whether the Patriot Prayer crowd had a right to assemble there. The onlooker demurred: "That's above my pay grade."
Actually, it was not. The Constitution guarantees each citizen the right to speak. Such liberty is precious, not subject to withdrawal by bureaucrats. That quintessential American truth should never be discounted. It recognizes our freedom to express ourselves however we please, and with deference to no objector.
Affirming as much, then, was not beyond the interviewed observer's authority. It was exactly of it.
posted by DC Larson at
September 10, 2017
1 Comments:
And, of course, msm paints Bannon stepping from WH to a flex open-ended advocacy position as the staff "tearing itself apart!"
It just occurred to me: Many try to dismiss a pro-Constitutional, pro-liberty warning of the vitality of the [current] fight as alarmist, something we "always hear every cycle." Yes, that *is* correct: BECAUSE the assault on personal freedom is unrelenting and never ends, SO also the fight against socialist [toward communist] status never know an end.
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