Bannon’s tour
Bannon is in Europe hoping to make it as horrible as he helped make the US. The guy dreams big.
“All I’m trying to be,” he said, “is the infrastructure, globally, for the global populist movement.”
“Populist” is code for sexist racist belligerent hateful and far-right.
On Saturday, he is set to headline the annual conference of France’s far-right National Front in the northern city of Lille, where he will be introduced by its leader, Marine Le Pen. People with knowledge of Mr. Bannon’s itinerary suggested that he might meet later in the weekend with the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, but Mr. Bannon declined to say whether or not he would, only saying that he admired Mr. Orban as a “hero” and “the most significant guy on the scene right now.”
In Zurich, Mr. Bannon says, he had a “fascinating” meeting on Tuesday with leaders of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany party.
Former White House senior staffer Stephen K. Bannon addressed France’s far-right National Front on Saturday, heralding the global populist tide and attacking the “opposition party media.”
Bannon’s surprise visit to the party’s conference in Lille — announced via Twitter late Friday — was his most recent stop on a European tour that has included Switzerland along with Italy, where last week, voters abandoned establishment parties and opted for a hung Parliament dominated by right-wing anti-immigrant populists.
“I came to Europe as an observer and to learn,” Bannon said, wearing his typical rugged attire before a cadre of the party elite dressed in suits.
“What I’ve learned is that you’re part of a worldwide movement, that is bigger than France, bigger than Italy, bigger than Hungary — bigger than all of it. And history is on our side,” he said. “The tide of history is with us, and it will compel us to victory after victory after victory.”
He also encouraged the party to stick to its nationalistic roots. “Let them call you racists. Let them call you xenophobes. Let them call you nativists,” he said.
Racism Pride.
Trump only picks the best people.
“All I’m trying to be,” he said, “is the infrastructure, globally, for the global populist movement.”
That’s a funny thing to hear from someone that ignored the winner of the popular vote…
Holms, are you spreading FAKE NEWS ™ again?
Confused of U.K. here. Is there a difference between a Globalist and a Global Populist? I only ask because I thought that this year, the Globalists were the Jews, so it seems an odd thing for Bannon to be promoting to the far-right.