President-elect Donald Trump’ campaign was a game changer and Stephen Bannon played a huge role in that as the chief executive. When Trump chose Bannon as his chief strategist, the establishment, on both sides of the aisle, erupted in anger and unfounded smears against Bannon, a man who has threatened their cushy status quo.
The establishment has attacked Bannon and smeared him as an anti-Semite and white nationalist, in part because of an article that ran on Breitbart — which the shameless establishment elites twisted to fit their agenda — and an unproven allegation by an ex-wife that Bannon supposedly made anti-Semitic comments years ago.
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In addition to this spurious “evidence,” the mainstream media calls Breitbart and other conservative new media outlets that they associate with the “alt-right” a litany of identity-politics insults because they are threatened by the influence they have as the mainstream media falls into irrelevancy.
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Not to mention the fact that it’s the liberal mainstream media that peddles racism and identity politics, and we know that the Left has a penchant for projection.
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PJ Media reported:
I know Steve Bannon, and have had several long discussions with him about politics. Steve is fervently pro-Israel, and it is utterly ridiculous to suggest that he is anti-Semitic.
Other observant Jews who know Bannon — for example, Joel Pollak — attest to his support for Israel and his friendship for the Jewish people.
Not a single article appeared in Breitbart.com during the past two years that could not have appeared in Israel Hayom, the leading Israeli daily.
But that is not what one hears from Ian Tuttle at National Review, who complains that “in May, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol was labeled a ‘Renegade Jew.'”
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He was, indeed — but by another Jew, David Horowitz. Horowitz argued that Kristol had betrayed Jewish interests by trying to torpedo Trump — a point Horowitz emphasizes here.
Tuttle knows this. But Tuttle chose to twist Horowitz’s headline into its opposite.
Tuttle’s colleague Jonah Goldberg also now inveighs against Bannon, but his post is too silly to quote.
Generously, Tuttle allows that Bannon is not Goebbels.
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He isn’t. But the Establishment (including the conservative Establishment) media drumbeat against Bannon takes its cue from Goebbels’ doctrine of the Big Lie: repeat it often enough, and people will believe it — no matter how absurd it is.
Bannon and the Trump campaign defeated Hillary Clinton with far less resources, and the establishment, on both sides, cannot stand it.
The establishment does not like their leadership questioned or threatened, and that’s exactly what Trump has done. When these elitists are threatened, they lash out and use identity politics to brand and smear their opposition.
After Clinton’s historic defeat, the pathetic establishment elitists are working to continue Clinton’s work to smear and shut down the so-called “alt-right,” which is better described as anyone that questions the globalist elite establishment.
Clinton begun the work to brand conservative new media with a whole host of slurs based upon identity politics because that’s what the the elites do to shut down dissension. As PJ Media noted, the tactic usually associated with the left is an establishment elite favorite:
We have learned from the sewage-storm directed at Bannon that the Establishment plays dirty, and that the formerly Republican #NeverTrumpers aren’t just misguided ideologues, but also yellow-bellied, gutter-crawling, backstabbing, bushwhacking liars. Hell hath no fury like a self-designated elite scorned.
I’d say that sums it up pretty well. Trump’s choice of Bannon was a good one and it showed that not only is he loyal, he’s willing, on the big stage, to stick to his guns and not cower to the elites. Let’s hope that continues.
