1. Bannon-style white nationalism has a genuine popular appeal in America, enough to take over GOP & sometimes win elections. But then it runs into the donor class.
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3. The plutocrats who run right & GOP will go along with Bannon part of the way on immigration & racism, but have little appetite for economic populism.
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4. Bannon's problem is he has a message that can sell but a party & media ecosystem that will prevent enactment.https://newrepublic.com/article/146576/steve-bannons-fatal-flaw …
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It's the other way over time. That's how "Bannonism" made it that far. Less useful to think of individuals on the Alt-Reich than the movement, which is funded by the donor class. Eventually this donor class gets overthrown by their own creation, insofar as there is a difference.
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The donor class consists of both folks who ideologically align with the Alt-Reich & those using it believing what you are outlining here (that they can ultimately reign it in). This latter group will collapse and join the former over time. They sure as hell ain't defecting left.
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Can we just call it Strasserism and be done with pretending it's something new?
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Bannonism is useful to the billionaire rightwing donors, because it gives them the equivalent of a bullyboy army they'd otherwise have to shell out for, and if they stroke them the right way, they'll intimidate and beat up people for free.
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Jeet, aren't you glad you don't live in a plutocracy?
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