Bannon's strategy is drawing increasing attention in the bourgeois press. On Saturday, the Washington Post wrote, "Friends say Bannon is invigorated with a singular focus. He is trying to build the equivalent of his own political party, one that aims to explode the Republican establishment and what he and his allies dismiss as the 'McConnell industrial complex,' all while shrouding it in the cloak of advancing Trump's agenda."
The journalist Joshua Green notes in his book Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency that Bannon told him, "Five, 10 years from now" the Republican Party will be a "different party. You're going to have a worker's party." Bannon, like Hitler, adopts the term "worker's party" to provide a populist veneer for his fascist agenda.
The growing influence of fascistic elements within the American political establishment is not the product of the maneuverings of one individual, and a lackluster one at that. Bannon is a former naval officer and Wall Street executive whose intellectual activity consists of reading pulp military hagiographies and the ramblings of 20th century fascist mystics. The fact that he has tapped into the financial resources of a growing faction of the American oligarchy and threatens to take over one of its two major parties is an expression of the rot of the capitalist system.
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