Dude, who even knows.
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Fired he might have been, but I’m not sure Steve Bannon’s wrong when he says he’ll be able to fight harder from the outside
He sure wasn’t controlling Trump (or Trump much of anything) in the White House, and since going in he lost his grip on the alt-right that largely went to shit. You’ll recall the original plan to draw out antifa was underwriting the delightfully playful Milo on a campus tour, while chugging milk and scampishly frustrating Shia LeBouef.
Without that direction and momentum it’s dispersing to attention whores and entryists – McInnes and his Proud Boys, Cernovich, especially Richard Spencer.
Charlottesville was a textbook entryist campaign by Spencer, who I remind you knows what he’s doing. You get some people not quite ready for the uncut stuff, you have a milder front group where they can be active in solidarity and politically educated, then you fold them into the OG group. “Unite” them, if you will. The British socialist splinters do a lot of entryism, the ANSWER antiwar marches against Dubya were a US equivalent.
My impression is Spencer succeeded in bringing the Stormers and TRS types along (they were there already) but not as much /pol/, let alone the fun-time channers and post-PUA bodybuilders, let alone the meming masses. (Only person I’ve seen noticing this is radical-of-good-faith Amber A'Lee Frost, it does weaken a good narrative)
So Bannon’s job would be to clean off the more impish side, rebrand, regroup. There is going to be right-insurgent energy on the fundamentals one way or another, and it can be better-channeled. The left unto normie left is high on its own hype, pretty far over its skis if you look at those polls, product of the (social) media bubble that’s Bannon’s foil. Could easily see him finding pressure points to turn racial iconoclasm towards a nation where whites party-vote like Dixie, aggravate the tensions in urban Dem coalitions (wokeness cant bond anarchists to landlords and employers forever, and they aren’t gonna let Deray herd them towards Cory Booker and Kamala Harris).
And he’s got the Mercers’ money so immune to pressure on advertisers, too connected to be cut off or blocked in otherwise, plus whatever insider information and access he has while it’s fresh. Don’t sleep on that boy.