Steve Bannon is a glib bullshit artist, not some dark monster

[kpete]

MORE:
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/24/14721700/steve-bannon-hans-gruber

[leftstreet]

1. The Mom's Basement Brigade is sure obsessed with power

There's probably something slightly Freudian there...

DURec

[anneboleyn]

13. Of course they are. It's all so obvious and pathetic

[Lucinda]

2. I vote for both.

Anyone that is ok with people suffering, and is gleeful at creating chaos, is pretty much a monster in my book.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

3. + 1

[Doreen]

4. That is exactly what I thought.

[LisaM]

5. Same here....

the two things aren't mutually exclusive.

[njhoneybadger]

6. You don't know what your talking about

This mother fu*cker is muy bad.

[gitchel]

7. Nice try

Whatever other bull gets slung around this guy, there are non-alternative-facts. He and his are plainly trying to dismantle as much of the government as possible. All angencies are being split into two piles: the agencies they'll need to pull off their plans to foster nationalism worldwide - all alinged to this Dugin/Putin version of "traditionalism" that Bannon worships - and the agencies they don't need, which have all now been headed by people dedicated to the destruction of those agencies.

The best way to know what a company is actually doing is to ignore the advertising and go around back to see what's actually loaded on the trucks.

[eppur_se_muova]

8. It bugs me that the press keeps repeating "deconstruction" without noting his misuse of that term.

If you ever read any of Bannon's writing, you'll find a few glaring errors and a lot of clumsy phrasing ... if he were even half as smart as he thinks he is, he wouldn't be making such sophomoric mistakes.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8700803

[brush]

9. Agreed. White supremacist/racist always equals dummy in my book, but a dummy who thinks

he's smarter than everyone else is very dangerous.

But it usually catches up with them in the end (his little protege Milo what's his name is a prime example of that).

He's also a fan boy of the new Rasputin, Alexandre Dugin, which is where he gets the deconstructionist rhetoric. There's nothing original in his thinking but unfortunately, he's got the ear of our not-the-sharpest-knife-in-the-drawer Mango Mussolini.

[anneboleyn]

14. As a lit-crit person myself, he sounds like an undergrad reciting mangled garbage

Maybe it sounds impressive to his sad little fans. I have no idea why anyone out there finds this fat moron interesting. He has a history of alleged spousal abuse (second wife I believe -- I think he's had three wives at this point), and I think it's safe to say that he has a temper, he looks like Jabba the Hutt, and his influence over Trump is just humiliating. Bannon has zero charisma himself so of course he hides behind others (because we all know that Trump has so much charisma -- lmfao)

[kwassa]

10. no, he really is a dark monster.

He is just incoherent in that activity .

[Paladin]

15. If he isn't, he'll damn sure serve until a real one comes along.

I think Bannon is holding a knife to the throat of what's left of our constitutional democracy. And I am really sick and tired of it.

[kwassa]

16. We need to fight back. Hard.

That is my takeaway since the inauguration of this madness.

[Paladin]

17. I'm at the "Whatever It Takes" level, at this point.

We need to reclaim our country, while there's still something worth claiming.

[irisblue]

11. nope he is both

And a clear and present danger to the rule of law

[ProudLib72]

12. Bannon is

a bad hombre. Need to deport his ass back to hell.

But seriously, how can anyone read that quote from the Hollywood Reporter and think this guy is good for the country?

[Initech]

18. Anyone who thinks Dick Cheney, Darth Vader, and Satan are good guys is a monster.

[FiveGoodMen]

19. See this

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/23/steve-bannon-cpac-rare-public-address-west-wing-power-trump-adviser

[ElementaryPenguin]

20. Agreed! Bullshitter is going to get his ass ultimately kicked!

Hopefully, he'll end up rotting in prison. People died defending our Constitution to have this nobody piece of shit set a match to it?! I DON'T THINK SO!!!

[Demsrule86]

21. He is an anarchist and wants to destroy our Republic...he should be kicked out. nt

[workinclasszero]

22. Are we trying to normalize this fascist monster now?

“Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That’s power”: Steve Bannon speaks out for first time since being named Donald Trump’s top White House adviser
FRIDAY, NOV 18, 2016 03:32 PM CST
http://www.salon.com/2016/11/18/dick-cheney-darth-vader-satan-that-is-power-steve-bannon-speaks-out-for-first-time-since-being-named-donald-trumps-top-white-house-adviser/

Bannon says he’s a Leninist: that could explain the White House’s new tactics
Victor Sebestyen
Trump’s top political adviser says he wants to destroy the state, like the Bolshevik leader, and some of his ideas certainly echo the Russian revolutionary

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/06/lenin-white-house-steve-bannon