The Rise of Populism by Stephen K. Bannon

Author:Stephen K. Bannon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: House of Anansi Press Inc
Published: 2019-06-12T15:48:14+00:00

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STEPHEN BANNON: As I’ve gone around and met the leaders of the populist nationalist movement in Europe — and I’m not an advisor to these insectioniduals; I’ve set up a group called “The Movement” to be kind of, hopefully, the interconnective tissue that can help them focus on the European parliamentary elections next year — not one leader, haven’t heard one say they want to destroy the European Union. What they talk about is the sovereignty of their country. They want their countries back, and they want their countries to be sovereign entities. And they want their citizens to be empowered, and not to report to these trans-national entities that have no accountability, the European Central Bank and the EU. They don’t want to make the European Union the United States of Europe, where Italy’s like South Carolina and France is Georgia; they want to make it a collection of sovereign insectionidual states that work together.

Why is that so hard, and why is that demonized? Why is the nation state — that’s been with us since the Treaty of Westphalia and is the central building block of our world — why is it all of a sudden so scorned? Why is the term “nationalism” so scorned and demonized? What people want is subsidiary: they want as much control as they can have as citizens, and that’s through the nation sate.

Donald Trump gave that back to the American people. I know you may mock and ridicule it. But the economic turnaround didn’t come from Obama, and everybody in the United States knows that. The most progressive president in the United States — and he can’t defend this — flooded the zone and bailed out the elite in our country. We have socialism in the United States for the very wealthy and the very poor, and a brutal form of Darwinian capitalism for everybody else: the devil take the hindmost.

That’s what the future entails if we don’t get this right in Trump’s administration and further administrations, if we don’t bring out the benefits of capitalism. The millennials are nothing but eighteenth-century Russian serfs right now. They’re better fed, they’re better clothed, they’re in better shape, they have access to more information, but they don’t own anything and they’re not going to own anything. Because of what Obama did, they’re 20 percent behind where their parents were at the same age. And they live in a gig economy; they can’t afford a house, there’s no pension plans, there’s no careers. That, by the way, is the biggest potential for our populist movement — the millennials — because they’re going to see the logic of what we are talking about.

Once again, David, we are not saying we shouldn’t have elections. You just don’t like it now because the established Republicans can’t win any elections.

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