Stephen Bannon and Donald Trump --The question should be
what are their beliefs and what ideas are they basing their actions? What is
behind this Muslim Ban? And the deeper reason for the soon to see more and more rounding up of undocumented
immigrants? Both men seem to be showing the country they want to burn
everything down which includes Washington Establishment, our norms and our institutions.
But Why? And what will come next after everything comes crashing down? To get
anywhere with answering these questions the Alt-Right must be studied.
Article: In
July, Bannon, who soon would leave Breitbart to become a top campaign aide to Trump, was
interviewed by journalist Sarah Posner. He proudly declared of Breitbart, "We're the platform for the alt-right." The alt-right is an
extreme but not well-defined wing of the conservative movement that rants
against immigrants, Muslims, the globalist agenda, and multiculturalism and
that generally advocates white nationalism (if not white supremacism—in this
world, there is a difference). The alt-right also generates a hefty amount of
anti-Semitism.
In March, the
website published an article headlined "An Establishment Conservative's Guide
to the Alt-Right," which was co-written by Milo Yiannopoulos, a prominent
figure in the movement. It noted that the alt-right opposed "full
'integration'" of racial groups: "The alt-right believe that some
degree of separation between peoples is necessary for a culture to be
preserved.”
What does
Spencer, the intellectual guru of the movement, advocate? He is quite explicit:
an all-white United States. This is not a secret. In a recent interview with Mother Jones, Spencer explained his belief that America's white population is
endangered, due to multiculturalism and immigration, and he advocated "a
renewed Roman Empire," a dictatorship where only white people could be
citizens. "You cannot view another white person as your enemy," he
remarked. His goal is a white ethnostate. How to get there may be unclear. He
added that he hoped America's nonwhites can be convinced to leave the country
on their accord: "It's like presenting to an African that this hasn't
worked out. We haven't made each other happier. We are going to have to take
part in this paradigmatic shift together." During the campaign, Spencer declared, Trump "loves white people."
Race is
central to the alt-right. Ben Shapiro, a former Breitbart editor, notes, "The alt-right, in a nutshell, believes that
Western culture is inseparable from
European ethnicity." That is, being white.
