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RosieG

An Answermugger states with infinite certitude that there's NO QUOTE from Steve Bannon indicating he's a Nationalist/Racist. Agree/dis/why?

Posted - April 6, 2017
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  • 6023
    Wait ... are you asking if there is a quote from Steve Bannon, or that there is an Answermugger who stated that?!?

    LOL
      April 6, 2017 12:04 PM MDT
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  • 113301
    Neither. I'm asking what you had for breakfast. I should think it would be obvious to anyone.
      April 6, 2017 12:10 PM MDT
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  • 6023

    Grammatically it can be read either way.

      April 6, 2017 12:58 PM MDT
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  • 113301
    Everything is subjective. Everything is dependent upon the "eye of the beholder:. I have zero control over how/what you behold.  That's entirely up to you. Happy Friday WO'R! :)
      April 7, 2017 3:52 AM MDT
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  • This is neither an agree or disagree answer. Either he said it or he didn't, a quick search should let you know one way or the other.
      April 6, 2017 2:24 PM MDT
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  • 113301
    Yes Karen. I realize that. I am asking YOU  to either support his contention or refute it. Thank you for your reply and Happy Friday.
      April 7, 2017 3:53 AM MDT
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  • I'm confused by exactly what you are asking. If Bannon did say it then the Mugger is wrong. If Bannon didn't say then the Mugger is right.  
      April 7, 2017 3:55 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    That is correct. I am asking YOU which it is. Have you read anything about it? If so then you would know. Don't mean to confuse you . I thought I stated the question very clearly but then I am not the  best one to judge such things. I KNOW what my intention is. I don't always communicate it well. I hope I just did.
      April 7, 2017 3:58 AM MDT
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  • I found this and it could be where people are saying he's a Nationalist: 

    Washington (CNN)Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's selection for White House chief strategist, says he's an "economic nationalist" but rejects racist and anti-Semitic elements of the nationalist alt-right movement.

    In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Bannon, a former Breitbart News executive, cast himself as a strident opponent of "globalism" -- including free trade deals that Trump has bemoaned.
    "I'm an economic nationalist. I am an America first guy," Bannon said in the interview.
    "And I have admired nationalist movements throughout the world, have said repeatedly strong nations make great neighbors. I've also said repeatedly that the ethno-nationalist movement, prominent in Europe, will change over time. I've never been a supporter of ethno-nationalism."
     
    Bannon said that "the black working and middle class and the Hispanic working and middle class, just like whites, have been severely hurt by the policies of globalism."
    He said he had urged Trump to reach out to minority communities on the campaign trail.
    "I was the one who said we are going to Flint, Michigan, we are going to black churches in Cleveland, because the thrust of this movement is that we are going to bring capitalism to the inner cities," Bannon told the newspaper.
    Bannon has been a target of Democratic criticism since his selection by Trump. Many liberals have pointed to incendiary Breitbart headlines -- items that mock "trannies," labeled Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol a "renegade Jew" and more -- in urging Trump to cut ties with Bannon.
    He dismissed that criticism, casting it as disappointment from Democrats who expected Trump to lose.
    "They were ready to coronate Hillary Clinton. That didn't happen, and I'm one of the reasons why. So, by the way, I wear these attacks as an emblem of pride," he said.
    He also cast Breitbart as "edgy" but "vibrant," and said, "Our definition of the alt-right is younger people who are anti-globalists, very nationalist, terribly anti-establishment."
      April 7, 2017 4:27 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    Thank you for that detailed info Karen. I appreciate it. I have read that Bannon also said that Breitbart is the gathering place for WHITE NATIONALISTS.  "Make  America Great Again" is allegedly code for "Make America White Again". Bannon is an unsavory character but Trump seems to like them, champion them, defend them. He defended Bill O'Reilly against allegations of sexually assaulting women. The president of the United States saw fit to defend a right-wing sexual assaulter talking head. Go figger! :( This post was edited by RosieG at April 7, 2017 5:27 AM MDT
      April 7, 2017 4:32 AM MDT
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