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Steve Bannon is on a far-right mission to radicalise Europe
Steve Bannon is on a mission. President Trump’s former chief strategist has visited Europe twice in the past four months, touring several capitals. He has been spreading the gospel of the “national populist revolt”, and he sees Europe as fertile ground for his global crusade. Maybe there is some truth in that. Italy’s current politics are a gift to him. But he has also been applauded by audiences in Prague, Budapest and France. Have we been paying enough attention?
It’s easy to dismiss Bannon as an isolated maverick, a man who was chucked out of the White House last August before being fired by Breitbart in January. It’s also tempting to see his activities as being mainly aimed at the Anglosphere: reaching out to US audiences and Brexiteers, rather than to the old continent. It’s even possible that he is trying to grab the attention of one man and one man only: Donald Trump – to get back into his good graces.
But I don’t buy the half-reassuring line that says Bannon has set his sights on Europe simply to compensate for his supposed estrangement from Trump. His trips across the Atlantic are part of an ideological struggle between “nationalists” and “globalists”, a battle that he is seeking both to frame and to escalate. He has obviously been using his White House pedigree to open doors here: the like-minded will flock, and others believe that his presence might offer insight into, if not access to, Trump’s circle.
It’s easy to dismiss Bannon as an isolated maverick, a man who was chucked out of the White House last August before being fired by Breitbart in January. It’s also tempting to see his activities as being mainly aimed at the Anglosphere: reaching out to US audiences and Brexiteers, rather than to the old continent. It’s even possible that he is trying to grab the attention of one man and one man only: Donald Trump – to get back into his good graces.
But I don’t buy the half-reassuring line that says Bannon has set his sights on Europe simply to compensate for his supposed estrangement from Trump. His trips across the Atlantic are part of an ideological struggle between “nationalists” and “globalists”, a battle that he is seeking both to frame and to escalate. He has obviously been using his White House pedigree to open doors here: the like-minded will flock, and others believe that his presence might offer insight into, if not access to, Trump’s circle.
[link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/06/steve-bannon-far-right-radicalise-europe-trump|
Hopefully if he tries to come to the UK he will not be let in as an undesirable...
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Besides, it's those amphibians who are slimy. 
