Steve Brannon claims he is a Leninist

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Is this what Trump voters and the Republican Congress wanted on our National Security Council?

Their silence says 'yes'.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/22/steve-bannon-trump-s-top-guy-told-me-he-was-a-leninist.html

[KittyWampus]

1. Who wants to blow things up. Well, we don't have to ask what could go wrong.

We didn't even vote for this assh*le nor did our Congress confirm him.

[Ilsa]

2. President Stephen Bannon is a Leninist.

I'd love to make donald paranoid.

[starshine00]

3. I was just thinking his nickname should be Lannon

before I saw this.

[fishwax]

4. nah, I don't think he's a leninist

wanting "to bring down the state" doesn't make you a leninist.

It does, however, make for a serious problem when someone with that attitude gets access to the levels of power that he currently has. It's horrifying.

[SHRED]

7. He claims he is

Whether true or not he needs that claim tied around his neck in my opinion.
Let the Trumpanzees realize this.

[fishwax]

9. Trump claims he's intelligent. I don't believe that, either.

(Also, Bannon apparently once described himself that way to a writer at a party, in a conversation that he won't now corroborate. I haven't seen evidence he actually claims (present tense) he is a Leninist, even if he once claimed (rhetorically) that he was.)

[BSdetect]

5. If so beware. Look who took over from Lenin.

But this notion seems a bit like Hitler's claim that communists and Jews were working together. Cognitive dissonance?

[MineralMan]

6. Not really. He is an extreme right-winger.

His goal is not communistic or socialistic. It is authoritarian in nature. He believes that a dictatorship is the most desirable form of government.

He is a very dangerous person to have anywhere in government.

[Wounded Bear]

8. I don't know the particulars of the "Leninist" philosophy...

however, I have a passing acquaintance with history, and I know some things.

The thing about "destroying the government" is pretty standard in the Handbook on how to create a dictatorship. Democracy has some inherent weaknesses that can be exploited by strongmen who can enveigle a way to circumvent and take advantage of the rules.

Bannon may or may not be a "leninist" but he is definitely an authoritarian. Ideological nuances aside, he's a dangerous man.

[SHRED]

10. I'm gonna reword my post to add "claims"

[Leghorn21]

11. From the "StopPresidentBannon" thread:

cyalexa
@cyalexa
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Everyone quotes from '1984', but at the rate our POTUS is going, you'll all need to get familiar with 'The Road'. #StopPresidentBannon


I don't know how exactly Bannon classifies himself, but cheeze, the stench of sulfur is strong in this one and he's just got to move on down the line. ASAP.

[Achilleaze]

12. Time for the IKGOPR* to repudiate their vile anti-Americanism

* Illegitimate KGOP Regime, Inc.

[Baitball Blogger]

13. This is what happens when you go along blindly.

Before you realize what is happening, you become a closet communist Republican.