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In an interview with Bloomberg News published on Monday, President Donald Trump claimed that infighting in his White House had subsidedinfighting that a month ago was described by administration officials to The Daily Beast as nonstop. In doing so, Trump praised his White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon, who just last month the president was publicly dissing.
Trump also revealed his own nickname for Bannons nationalist (and hard-right) ideology: "alt-left," a riff on the term alt-right, for which Bannon previously said the website Breitbart served as the platform.
Bannons more of a libertarian than anything else, if you want to know the truth, Trump told Bloomberg News.
Bannon does not identify as libertarian; he self-IDs as a right-wing, anti-globalist nationalist, and libertarians widely loathe Bannon. Bannon has, however, once called himself a Leninist, in style if not substance or ideology. Ironically, when Steve Bannon tried to set up a Breitbart India, the Mumbai-based writer Amit Varma, who he met with to launch the enterprise, rejected the idea on the grounds of being a pro-immigration, pro-gay-rights libertarian, as The Daily Beast reported in March.
Asawin Suebsaeng
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Boomerproud
(7,951 posts)Tanuki
(14,918 posts)TeamPooka
(24,221 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,377 posts)MedusaX
(1,129 posts)Would be in a 100% Evangelical White Nationalist society....
Sculpin Beauregard
(1,046 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Bannon is not left in any way shape or form.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)He's all yours, President Trump. That leopard ain't changing his spots, and Bannon's complexion is a blotchy as ever.
Warpy
(111,245 posts)This is no exception.
Apparently Bannon does have one talent: flattering Dolt45 extensively enough to stay in the White House as smarter loyalists start to drift away.
JHB
(37,158 posts)About 80-90 years old.
JDC
(10,125 posts)pepperbear
(5,648 posts)LeftInTX
(25,258 posts)He's obvious a commie, pinko...kick him out