Macrobius on Nostr: Steve Bannon isn't powerful per se, but in some sense he's the lynchpin of the Alt ...
Steve Bannon isn't powerful per se, but in some sense he's the lynchpin of the Alt Right, that is, Breitbart Nationalism as a bridge to the more normie side of Traditionalism ('social conservatives'), and savvy enough politically to know how to speak to the Alt Right without stepping in it himself.
MAGA is a fairly complex beast as coalitions go - remember in 2017 when Bannon was side-lined and Rich Higgins fired by McMaster, mostly over 'The Memo' but also in Bannon's case as a slap at the Alt Right, after Charlottesville. Also note that the coalition that elected Trump in 2016 didn't do much for him in 2018 mid-terms or 2020, esp. after the Left pulled out all the stops with 2019 BLM and maybe COVID.
However we might want to categorise people like Trump or Musk or Bannon on ideological and institutional grounds, we might do better to reason like Mearsheimer about the REALIST pressures that will drive the logic of their conflict with the Left.
MAGA is a fairly complex beast as coalitions go - remember in 2017 when Bannon was side-lined and Rich Higgins fired by McMaster, mostly over 'The Memo' but also in Bannon's case as a slap at the Alt Right, after Charlottesville. Also note that the coalition that elected Trump in 2016 didn't do much for him in 2018 mid-terms or 2020, esp. after the Left pulled out all the stops with 2019 BLM and maybe COVID.
However we might want to categorise people like Trump or Musk or Bannon on ideological and institutional grounds, we might do better to reason like Mearsheimer about the REALIST pressures that will drive the logic of their conflict with the Left.