Steve Bannon says he's willing to testify before January 6 committee after Trump waives claims of ex

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29. No! He's an arrogant expounder of intellectual nationalistic bullshit.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/21/16000914/steve-bannon-devils-bargain-josh-green
Inside Steve Bannon’s apocalyptic ideology: “Like [Karl] Rove on an acid trip”

He may also be batshit crazy. Here's a sample:

(Josh Green) 'The way I initially got into this line of research for the book is I went and said [to Bannon], “Hey, if you’re not a racist and an anti-Semite” — Bannon of course claims not to be — “why is it that you’re so drawn to these fascist nationalist ideologues from the 1930s and 1940s?” People like Julius Evola, who was Mussolini’s ideologist and who Bannon mentioned in a video at this Vatican conference that he spoke to in 2014...

(Bannon)...well, I’m a nationalist and I went looking for intellectual underpinnings to support my philosophy. And the most prominent nationalist thinkers were guys like Julius Evola, who, while they had some very ugly beliefs and associations, were doing a lot of the thinking about nationalism...

(Josh Green) What attracted Bannon to them was this idea of decline. Guénon’s famous book was called Crisis of the Modern World, and it laid out this view that essentially beginning with the Enlightenment and the rise of modernity and the nation-state system, we in the West lost our connection to the esoteric, to God. And that we were entering a six-thousand-year dark age. I’m trying to think how to explain this without sounding batshit crazy...

But either way, the kinds of stories he published at Breitbart are pretty consistent with the idea that the whole world is falling apart, the country is going to hell, these dangerous immigrants and criminals are kinda marauding through our culture, and meanwhile the secular PC liberals are turning a blind eye to it and destroying American identity and so on and so forth.

I don’t see it as being necessarily at odds with what any of these crazy thinkers in the books are writing. What’s unsettling to me is the thought that maybe this isn’t just intellectual preening; maybe he believes it.'