Former White House strategist Steve Bannon sat down with The Guardian, offering his take on everything from Boris Johnson’s win the the recent UK election, to why minority support for Trump is on the rise, and finally – why the GOP needs its own version of AOC.
Bannon says that Boris Johnson’s sweeping UK victory over Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn is a “victory for populism,” noting how he was fascinated by focus groups on British TV during the election campaign. “These were Labour voters and they were not going to vote for Labour and the reason was they kept asking, ‘How are these programmes going to be paid for?’ What I was most impressed with was the specificity and the granularity of the questions..”
“People don’t want to be spun any more. They don’t want to be BS’d any more. They want to know what you’re laying out and how you’re going to effectuate it and, most importantly, how you’re going to pay for it and ‘if paying for it means more increased taxes or less opportunities for me, you’re not going to get my vote no matter how good it sounds’.”
“I think the Democrats, on whether it’s Green New Deal or healthcare for illegal aliens or whatever, ought to take the lessons of the working class. These are lifetime Labour members that voted for a Tory,” Bannon added.
Bannon regards Johnson as neither a nationalist nor a populist and likens the prime minister’s vision of Brexit to “Singapore-on-the-Thames” – very different from the version hoped for by those who voted for him. Even so, Bannon argues that both the Conservatives and Republicans should aim to seize their traditional rivals’ territory by appealing to the working class. –The Guardian
Bannon explains that nationalism is about protecting the working class from both illegal and legal immigration – which disproportionately hurts minorities.
“Look, this is what drives me nuts about the left. All immigration is to flood the zone with cheap labour, and the reason is because the elites don’t give a fuck about African Americans and the Hispanic working class. They don’t care about the white working class either. You’re just a commodity”.
“So they have unlimited labour and they’re paying you nine bucks an hour. ‘Let more guys in and, by the way, it’s bigger markets.’ It destroys the working class. That’s what we’ve got to protect. Once we show working-class people of every ethnicity and race that you being a citizen you get a special deal, you get that realignment.”
“As soon as we won in London at the end of June, I kept saying this is a lock for Trump, we’ve just got to drive the same topics. That’s why, when I took over the campaign, it was let’s get back to some basics: stop mass illegal immigration, limit legal immigration, protect your workers. Why do you think Trump today is at 34% approval rating in the Emerson polls among blacks and 36% among Hispanics? He’s going to get 20% of the black vote and here’s why: everybody’s working,” said Bannon.
Why the GOP needs an AOC, and Trump can thank Bloomberg for impeachment
“We’ve turned the Republican party into a working-class party,” said Bannon, adding “Now, interestingly, we don’t have any elected representatives who believe that, but that’s a legacy issue. We’ll get over that. We’ve got to find our AOCs.”
In short, while Trump swept into office on an America First policy aimed at supporting the working class – particularly those in flyover states, the Republican party needs “more bartenders.”
Bannon says that the Democrats took back the house in 2018 for two reasons; Mike Bloomberg – whose PAC injected $110 million into supporting Democrats in the midterm elections (21 of the 24 candidates he supported won their races), and “better casting.”
Ocasio-Cortez, a 30-year-old former bartender from New York, was elected to Congress last year and has built a huge social media following as a member of “the Squad”, a group of four progressive women of colour. Her eagerly sought presidential endorsement went to fellow progressive senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
The Democrats and their supporters have “better casting”, Bannon admitted. “They did an amazing job in 18. I keep saying I admire AOC. I think her ideology’s all fucked up, but I want her. I want to recruit bartenders. I don’t want to recruit any more lawyers. I want bartenders.” –The Guardian
He notes that in addition to AOC and ‘the squad,’ Democrats had military veterans such as Max Rose of New York and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey. “That’s perfect casting. That’s why we got smoked.”
On Bloomberg, Bannon says “people are missing the point.”
“Trump wouldn’t be impeached if it were not for Bloomberg. It’s Bloomberg’s hundred million dollars that won the seats … The Democrat party is just like Republicans: a pass through. There’s no actual people to do anything. They’re not out in any state ringing doorbells. Those activist groups are. That’s where Bloomberg put his hundred million dollars.”
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Henry Ford “got it right” when he CREATED a market for his cars by making them inexpensive while paying his workforce a decent wage. He realized that a well-paid workforce would be able to buy his products, among other things. It could be safely argued that Ford, CREATED the middle class. Automobiles, once “playthings for the rich” were made affordable for the “ordinary common man”.
Today’s capitalist “mantra” is that labor costs must be as cheap as possible while the “value” (profit) to the stockholder must be as great as possible. Sacrificing labor on the altar of “maximum profits” NEVER works.
Of course, in the short term, with cheap Chinese goods flooding the market, the economy looks, good, but without CONSUMERS who hold jobs that pay reasonably well, all bets are off. There needs to be a balance between profits and labor.
Presently, labor is looked upon as a “necessary evil” to be minimized at all costs. The problem arises-without labor there are no consumers. As I previously stated, a “balance” must be maintained. Labor is not evil, but a necessary component of capitalism.
Adolph Hitler’s economic successes and the rapid rise of the German economy was predicated on labor being assigned “value”and monetized-something that is missing in capitalist societies today.
If labor costs need to be trimmed to assure “profit”, something is seriously wrong. In fact, in the well-paid American automobile industry, labor costs account only for approximately 10% of total costs.
Offshoring production results in consumers (customers) being “lost”.
As to “tariffs”, the American country ran on tariffs from its inception until 1913, when the “income tax” and “federal reserve” was established.
The American economy is being propped up by the “social safety net” which obscures the TRUE economic situation in the U S .
You mean MOAR cheap stuff on the display counters, being looked at (then ignored) by people with no spending money in their pockets doesn’t work??? – who’d a thunk 🙂
Keep repeating that lie about Ford. Ford did no such thing. You have posted that same shit a dozen times, and it is still a lie. Any brief bit of research will quickly expose the lie. It was about retaining employees, who hated to work at Ford, and who left by the tens of thousands. So, to keep workers he started to pay them massive amounts, for the day.
Manufacturing was the key to the middle class, as you say, though. The mantra about low costs and profit has always been true. Here, look at this chart:
See the drop in manufacturing jobs? Because cutting costs has ALWAYS been the name of the capitalist game. Before manufacturing, it was cost cutting in agriculture. Profit has always been the name of the game. And it has ALWAYS worked. Profit baby, and the more the better. Profit is not a dirty word. There does not need to be a balance between profit and anything. what you suggest is an artificial barrier to making profit, and that ALWAYS fails. what do they call that again? Oh, right -Socialism.
Hitler BANNED automation (he also created large work camps,and banned women from working, but that is another story). Wow, that is a great idea. How long before that would have collapsed? There would have been zero productivity improvements, as they were banned. Any chance it is why he invaded other countries, in an expansion effort? Because his absurd banning of productivity improvements was headed down the toilet fast.
Your comment about the labor content in a car is 10% is also bullshit. That is the assembly cost. What about the labor in the components? The labor in the metal refining? The labor in the smelting, the digging of the ore, the transport of it? In the glass, in the plastics, in the leather and the raising of the cow, the tanning of the leather? It is vastly more than that if you dig down through the supply chain.
Labor is trimmed to reduce cost, of course. But it is all driven by competition, as only the most competitive can gain the Holy Grail of profit, and to do that you must have the lowest costs.
anarchyst wants to kill competition, and profit. It is Socialism, and it will not work. It is competition that drives everything forward, where the most competitive get the gold. without that reality, everything turns to shit. Every time.
Hitler did not ban automation, he was building an Army and needed whatever weaponry and armaments he could get. He banned labor unions.
Exactly right, read Albert Spears’s book Inside the Third Reich. He was Germany’s Minister of Armaments and War Production. This guy was flown in (by a woman pilot no less) on a small airplane, landed on the street at Hitler’s bunker with the Russians completely surrounding Berlin, gave a report and then flew back out. He was like third in line to Hitler himself.
Germany had a shortage of workers, their production was huge. So therefore captured war prisoners were used.
History is interesting, some might not know that captured Russians were used to man the German anti-aircraft guns quite often. Guess they were told to fight for their lives, as the bombs were falling on them too.
Looks like I hit a nerve…GOOD.
Llpoh’s jewish roots are showing.
Profit is not a dirty word, but unbridled profits at the top while demanding that the lowest paid take more and more cuts is not capitalism, but is predatory in nature.
I agree with you that socialism never works.
A true capitalist system does monetize and value labor as I have stated. Driving wages down while those at the top rake in millions and billions for doing NOTHING is a problem. From predatory banksters and corrupt boards of directors, the whole damned temple claiming itself as capitalism IS corrupt.
Henry Ford DID have a hand in creating the middle class as other companies were forced to raise wages to compete with Mr. Ford’s wage scale.
Mr. Llpoh, in your infinite wisdom, inform us how American manufacturing workers can compete with a Chinese worker making .50 cents per hour.
Can’t be done…
Shalom
Have you ever been to see a Chinese manufacturing plant? I have. And they are not efficient. In many cases $0.50 is an over payment. If an American company cannot compete, then it is screwed. I compete directly against the Chinese, and kick their asses. Just how do I manage that, seeing as they pay so much less than I do? Gee, I wonder.
The other little tidbit is that the US manufactures $2.33 trillion in goods each year. It imports around $500 billion of Chinese goods. So, somehow, even with a labor rate of $0.50 (it is more than that but whatever) the US still manages to have a massive manufacturing industry. According to you that is not possible.
So, manufacturing workers in the US are indeed competing with the Chinese. So your claim that US workers cannot compete is a lie. They can and do compete very well, thank you. It depends on the field of manufacture. The US does very well at high end, but labor intensive manufacture is indeed a struggle. So the answer is to become increasingly efficient.
What you do not know about business is mind-boggling. Seriously, get a fucking clue instead of spouting party line, comrade. Your Communism is showing.
He makes sense here.
Anyone want to report on why DJT booted him after winning in 2016?
With sourced facts, instead of speculation?
Bannon wasn’t good for the jews, that’s why.
Can someone explain why we should tolerate obscene wealth? They use the $$ to fuck us.
Can anyone explain why it’s anyone else’s damn business how much wealth you have?
In a society founded on God-given, inalienable rights, no one has the right to tell you how much wealth you can have, and the only way they could possibly put a cap on your wealth is to violate your rights. Violate your rights by keeping track of your assets, and then violate your rights by stealing what is yours once you exceed the cap.
AD – damn right. Envy is a terrible thing.
change the laws re buying influence, sure, but steal anyone’s money? Fuck that.
LL,
It ain’t about envy. You say that every time. When have I ever said I was envious? I want these fucks to stop fucking me and you. They couldn’t do it without obscene wealth.
Haha, that’s just to incite you.
Don’t steal their property. Change the laws that allow them influence.
What if they steal my property?
The only people who gain political influence are the wealthy and those who sell themselves to the wealthy.
They are stealing my liberty. My Liberty is more valuable than their baubles and trinkets.
much more so
Did you miss the part about sodomy, friend? War is a relative contest. Christcucks love to glorify losing as winning. Death is life. Pain is purity. Did we not learn what Doomsberg did with his money? Maybe we could define obscene as corrupt? Fiat money is always sodomy. Lotsa fiat money is obscene, is it not?
Is that what you’ll be saying when they take your guns?
Are you dumber than fuck?
“Reality” Doug
That wasn’t aimed at you.
Tolerate it? If they earn it honestly, it is theirs, and who are you, or I, or anyone, to steal it from them?
Because that is how humanity has always been run and the stupid Prole refuses to do anything about it?
If obscene wealth was self created legally, without graft or blackmail you best tolerate it or nobody but your master will have wealth. And wealth then will be described as freedom or not, time or not. Life of not. Slave or not. Money will be in time, life or liberty. Nothing else. If you do not understand this raise your IQ from a 40.
The only true role of govt is to protect private property.
LL,
Hello!! The government has been taken over by extreme greed of the elite with obscene wealth. They write laws that give them wealth advantages even. Come on man, you’ve got to see this. You smaaat.
Obama was the ‘deporter in chief’ and Trump has followed through. The point is that blacks have political power and that is not lost on Trump. He now has 5 black women representing his beauty empire – Miss America, Miss USA, Miss Teen USA, Miss Universe, and now Miss World. These are all Trump properties. WTF!!!
Obama was the ‘deporter in chief’….
I suppose that would depend on what the definition of a deportation is, and who is in charge of counting. In an effort to appear tougher on illegal immigration overall, Obama’s administration counted “catch and returns” at the border as deportations. Now it seems that a deportation is an interior deportation of an illegal alien living within the U.S. as opposed to denying asylum at the border and turning them around – which is not counted as a deportation now. Obama was not as focused on interior deportations.
https://bongino.com/debunked-obama-deported-more-people-than-trump/
Trump had nothing to do with Miss America, ever. He no longer owns any pageants so there being five black women holding those titles may be more a result of affirmative action rather than looks, then again, they could have been the best looking. He sold that pageant ’empire’ in 2015, BTW. This is readily available information.
Obama was the ‘catch and release’ chief. Deporting? Not so much.
“Look, this is what drives me nuts about the left. All immigration is to flood the zone with cheap labour”
That’s part of it I’m sure, but more and more it looks to me like the democrats are using immigration to gain a permanent lock on a majority democrat voting base.
*smh* Cheap labor? That’s not the exit strategy. Invasion and extermination is the exit strategy. They will be able to kill our killers easily. Georgia Guidestones. Half a bill. Playground planet earth.
Anybody who says that blacks, jews, hispanics, homos or any other special group are going to change from their traditional voting percentages in support of Trump 2020 is either a disinfo agent or has rocks in their head. It’s not going to happen.
Things are very volatile. Tradition is not in charge, and that gets clearer and clearer. The only politician positioned (theoretically) against the foreign invasion is DJT. When it counts, he will campaign like the boss. He’s a winner for a reason. That rust belt power move in the final days of election 2016 was one for the ages. It will be in the history books.
People vote with their wallets. what little the Democrats offer involves more taxes. Who would you pick?
Steve Bannon is one of the great political strategist alive. He is brilliant and sees the real America and what people want. He is straight outta atlas shrugged. Trump was a complete fool to let him go. I lost half my faith in Trump when Bannon left.
I agree. Bannon was not afraid of Trump’s jewish bosses.
The White House smells like swamp personnel. Bannon is brilliant, but it really just seems like common sense to me. This ain’t hard. Being divested of a narrative ego, that’s hard. There’s something real when he interviews, as I see it. I expect he has an agenda, but it seems like objective truth is what he’s after, no conniving. I wonder what sort of president he would be?
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The elites are doing god’s woke.
All cultures are the same.
https://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/news/national-news/groom-killed-by-wedding-crashers-at-his-reception-police-say/
We must stop white supremacy at any cost.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY5MufAJY-4
This is how it ends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXSuYxwQmI0
Anybody believe this: “We’ve turned the Republican party into a working-class party,” said Bannon” ?