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A Leninist in the White House: Heavy-handed Steve Bannon
Everything Donald Trump has done so far — the wall, the Muslim ban — is a masterstroke of political misdirection by the real power in the White House, Steve Bannon, who served as executive chair of Breitbart News.
Steve Bannon is a self-described Leninist, and that is a far greater threat to the Republic than any wall or Muslim ban. I do not mean that Bannon aims to overthrow capitalism and replace it with a communist state underpinned by Marxist ideology.
If anything, the Annapolis- and Harvard-educated businessman seeks a restoration of “Judeo-Christian” capitalism that would make Vladimir Lenin shake in his mausoleum.
What Bannon does admire about Lennin is his methodology and ideas on political struggle.
Lenin rejected the “bourgeois” notion that politics is a game of compromise between competing interests.
Instead, Lenin embraced a view of politics known as “democratic centralism” that called for a complete centralization of power within the party to engage in a struggle for domination over state and society.
This is Bannon to a tee:
a man who calls the media the “opposition party,” and
rationalized his refusal to engage with reporters on the grounds that “politics is war.”
Comfortably ensconced in the West Wing, Bannon has a free hand to fundamentally alter the nature of American government.
under Bannon’s eye the executive order was drafted by senior Republican congressional staffers who were then
forced to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement preventing them from telling their bosses — the duly elected members of the U.S. Congress — exactly what they were doing.
This explains
why Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan have been rather quiet of late, since senior Republicans do not want to admit they have zero control over their own staffs.
While protesters burn effigies of Trump and scream at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, Bannon has used the distraction provided by these “useful idiots” to full effect.
Bannon secured himself a seat on the principals committee on the National Security Council while downgrading the nation’s highest-ranking military officers, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to part-time status.
According to one civilian official cited by Foreign Policy magazine, even before Bannon’s official appointment,
he had created a “shadow NSC” in which he centralized decision-making powers without do entation.
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