By Christopher Chantrill, AMERICAN THINKER
Last week the left tried to Bork Steve Bannon, a key Trump campaign aide and proposed “chief White House strategist and senior counselor” and until August executive chairman of Breitbart News, by linking him to the alt-right. The Trumpist response to the attack was haul out Breitbart journalists and others to deny that Bannon and Breitbart had anything to do with the alt-right. Then the NeverTrumpers got into the act to say that while Bannon was innocent of the charges there was no doubt that Breitbart was playing with fire where the alt-right was concerned.
I think that the Trump people should have taken the opportunity to change the narrative. It should have turned the story back onto the left. If the alt-right is beyond the fringe, then what about the left? Is the racist La Raza beyond the respectable left fringe? Or racist Black Lives Matter? Or the racist Nation of Islam? Or radical MoveOn.org? Or socialist ANSWER? Somehow there doesn’t seem to be any group on the left that embarrasses the mainstream left.
And what about the left protesting the results of a presidential election? How fringe and extremist is that?
Moreover, the Trumpists should say, only we have the key that keeps the alt-right in its cage, because we have built a populist electoral coalition that is, for now, willing to be patient while a President Trump makes America great again. So the alt-right is marginalized, for now.
Here is how Steve Bannon views the alt-right, answering a question in Europe in 2014 about how to deal with the racist fringe in UKIP and the Front National.
But there’s always elements who turn up at these things, whether it’s militia guys or whatever. Some [of] that are fringe organizations. My point is that over time it all gets kind of washed out, right? People understand what pulls them together, and the people on the margins I think get marginalized more and more.
So Steve Bannon thinks the we should let the fringes be part of the action and have faith that the mainstream populists will push them to the sidelines in the natural to-and-fro of politics.
And Steve Bannon is the guy that liberals, cued by the New York Times, think is too extreme to advise president-elect Trump.
I’d say, based on another Bannon speech I’ve linked to, that that the real liberal problem with Bannon is that he is liberals’ worst nightmare, a conviction conservative that really believes what he says, and with the courage to make it so.
So of course liberals want to bully Steve Bannon — and Jeff Sessions, nominee for attorney general — off the stage right now before Donald Trump even gets inaugurated. Bullying and intimidating is what they do.
But I think that the liberal effort to Bork Bannon and silence the alt-right is worse than a crime, it’s a blunder.
The alt-right is a warning to us all. If lefties don’t tone down the hate and the fear on ordinary conservatives like Bannon and Sessions then the great American white majority will one day decide that more extreme measures are needed. And they might decide that white identity politics, the solution proposed by many on the alt-right, is the only thing to oppose intellectual terrorism of liberal race and gender identity politics.
On that day, there will no longer be today’s Kansas politics anymore where the left can mainstream Black Lives Matter and La Raza, and calmly consider making a black Muslim head of the Democratic National Committee, and quote unverified hate statistics from the Southern Law Poverty Center and lecture vice-president elect Pence from the stage of a hit Broadway musical. We will be instead in a world of dueling identity hate groups where whites add up to 70 percent of the voters.
If that day comes, and the white majority decides it is not going to take the politics of political correctness anymore where liberals get to name and shame and silence anyone who disagrees with them, and white identity politics breaks its leash, it will be the left and its evil race and gender identity politics that will be to blame. But it won’t matter who is to blame, not then, because U.S. politics will not then feature the decorous bleatings of high-minded elite talking heads and leggy blondes. By then it will have a far darker aspect, and in that time the white majority will just roll over the opposition in a flood tide of rage, and after it has finished there will be no left left in America.
So let’s support Steve Bannon and let the alt-right to put its nose inside the tent of respectability, and let us push back hard against the 21st century Borkers. Americans have nothing to lose but our timidity. We have a nation to win.
Christopher Chantrill @chrischantrill runs the go-to site on US government finances, usgovernmentspending.com. Also see his American Manifesto and get his Road to the Middle Class.
@ yamit82:
He is trying to unify the country so he can get things accomplished. He needs a consensus. Though it’s true she is a heel.
I wouldn’t second-guess him at this point. I’m inclined to trust him.
yamit82 Said:
I agree… and now we have a wave of what I believe are hoax crimes, false flags… using the jews to paint trump and his supporters as anti semites… I believe that it is soros and the muslims of CAIR etc funding this sort of stuff…. they have probably put a lot of money behind this sort of stuff
Soros is funding the elections of local DA’s throughout the nation and the use of propaganda and false flages is worrisome. I feel sure that vandalism was produced by leftists and muslims to smear trump in order to get opinion against his anti muslim immigration policy. They will get Jews to lead this false flag. The dem propaganda network is frightening to me…controlled by the most dangerous groups to Jews.
@ bernard ross:
I heard it too. Not happy he is backtracking would have been better to say nothing on the matter for the time being. That said maybe he is playing Obama into not pardoning her so she can be prosecuted after Jan 20 1917??? Then again maybe he is covering his own ass with his businesses now in question.
Problem is the principle of no one being above the law and others convicted and serving jail time for similar infractions and what about all the other accessories to her crimes?
Now Giuliani who was in favor of pursuing and indicting her says: “well in the name of unity and tradition he goes along with Trump”…. Not a good beginning for this Admin!!!!
not good, this will allow the soros network to flourish… he is funding the elections of DA stooges throughout the nation seeking to corrupt the justice system in the rank and file.
“help her heal”? who is the victim here. trump need not “pursue” anything… he merely needs to allow an uncorrupted DOJ to investigate the criminals and return the stolen cash and give equal justice. Donald ran compalining of an unequal justice system and now he would be enshrining that corruption by protecting the crooks. What about all those who dies, what about the hundreds of millions…. either donald was a liar or he is part of the political corruption where by oppositions ascending to power cover up the last occupants crimes… washing each others dirty hands.
The prosecutions of the clintons is not a vendetta, it is about restoring justice to the american people. Also, all these riots formented by soros are covering up soros attempts at sedition by funding all the state and locan DA’s and prosecutors, attempting with his dirty money to buy all the local justice systems and corropt the rank and file, rotting us from withing. Soros and his networks should be investigated as sedition and his funded stooges in gov should be purged. Bringing Justice to the clintons and the dem hierarchy for their crimes is the first step in investigating the seditious network behind them. If Trump drops this ball then all his past talk is BS and he will be just another corrupt politician. I prefer a system where the new occupant prosecute the last ones for their crimes, this will be a better way to drain the swamp of the corrupt.
alt-right? ctrl-alt-delete is more like it.*
* command to shut down to enable reboot in the face of critical malfunction or frozen system.
Oh dear, I wrote this before I saw the next article on this very theme. I guess great minds think alike.
Neeeever mind.