Steve Bannon Creates Strategy Birthing “An Entirely New Political Movement” Under Trump

Next to Donald Trump himself, Steve Bannon, formerly of Breitbart News, might be the person who will shake up the political order more than anyone else.  He moved from Breitbart News chief to CEO of the Trump presidential campaign.  He has now been named by Mr. Trump to the position of chief strategist in Trump’s administration.  He’s building a new political movement.  Liberals are in shock.

“I’m not a white nationalist, I’m a nationalist. I’m an economic nationalist,” Bannon tells THR media columnist Michael Wolff as the controversial Breitbart News chief turned White House advisor unleashes on Hillary Clinton, Fox News and his critics.

Nothing like starting off with a bold statement, telling it like it is.  And here’s a bit of his vision for the political movement sponsored by the Trump administration.

“Like [Andrew] Jackson’s populism, we’re going to build an entirely new political movement,” he says. “It’s everything related to jobs. The conservatives are going to go crazy. I’m the guy pushing a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. With negative interest rates throughout the world, it’s the greatest opportunity to rebuild everything. Ship yards, iron works, get them all jacked up. We’re just going to throw it up against the wall and see if it sticks. It will be as exciting as the 1930s, greater than the Reagan revolution — conservatives, plus populists, in an economic nationalist movement.”

Mr. Bannon isn’t shy about blasting the mainstream media, even going so far as to describe it as one reason Hillary lost the election.

Bannon represents, he not unreasonably believes, the fall of the establishment. The self-satisfied, in-bred and homogenous views of the establishment are both what he is against and what has provided the opening for the Trump revolution. “The media bubble is the ultimate symbol of what’s wrong with this country,” he continues. “It’s just a circle of people talking to themselves who have no f—ing idea what’s going on. If The New York Times didn’t exist, CNN and MSNBC would be a test pattern. The Huffington Post and everything else is predicated on The New York Times. It’s a closed circle of information from which Hillary Clinton got all her information — and her confidence. That was our opening.”

Commenting on his boss, Bannon isn’t any less candid or bold.

“He gets it; he gets it intuitively,” says Bannon, perhaps still surprised he has found such an ideal vessel. “You have probably the greatest orator since William Jennings Bryan, coupled with an economic populist message and two political parties that are so owned by the donors that they don’t speak to their audience. But he speaks in a non-political vernacular, he communicates with these people in a very visceral way. Nobody in the Democratic party listened to his speeches, so they had no idea he was delivering such a compelling and powerful economic message. He shows up 3.5 hours late in Michigan at 1 in the morning and has 35,000 people waiting in the cold. When they got [Clinton] off the donor circuit she went to Temple University and they drew 300 or 400 kids.”

Hang on for a wild ride.  The Trump Train shows no signs of slowing down with Mr. Bannon in charge of strategy.

Source:  The Hollywood Reporter