APOCALYPSE SOON? The Big End-of-Days Ideas of the Breitbart Intellectuals Thinking for Trump
Trump’s chief policy adviser is staffing the administration with other key players who share his end-of-days, clash-of-civilizations perspective.
RONALD RADOSH
02.21.17 12:00 AM ET
Not long ago, Steve Bannon’s Capitol Hill townhouse had a plaque next to the front door proclaiming it “The Breitbart Embassy.” A similar sign may as well be placed at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, renaming the White House “The Breitbart House,” one dedicated to bringing down the old power structure, including the Republican and Democratic establishments, and destroying the power of the international so-called Davos elites.
The Breitbart House is apocalyptic. It aims to bring down the powers that be, and to replace them with a new world order. That’s a big task. Privately, reporters are saying that those Republicans they talk to on the Hill are worried about President Trump, but fear going after him because it might lose their constituents’ support.
In audio recordings of his Sirius/XM radio program from 2015 and 2016, USA Today reported, Bannon “told his listeners that the United States and the Western world are engaged in a ‘global existential war,’ and he entertained claims that a ‘fifth column’ of Islamist sympathizers had infiltrated the U.S. government and news media.” Among other predictions, he said America and China would go to war in five to 10 years in the South China Sea. Both an “expansionist Islam” and an “expansionist China,” he argued, were “on the march… And they think the Judeo-Christian West is on the retreat.” Islam itself, he said is “darker” than either Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia ever was.
Anyone who has taken the time to watch Bannon’s 2010 Generation Zero documentary will understand how he sees the world. The film’s predominant theme is that the Judeo-Christian West is under attack by the Islamic world. The latter will win unless the West wakes up and counters it. In America, this can be done by drawing on more traditional eras, like the 1950s, when there was an agreement on basic morality deriving from the strength of organized religion in a church-going nation. In a script for a film he never made, on Islam’s takeover of the United States, Bannon asserts that our present situation is the result of the “appeasement” of Islam practiced by “enablers” from the universities, “the Jewish community,” and the media that is “facilitating” their victory.
As for immigration, Bannon believes that all Muslim immigrants to the United States are “not Jeffersonian democrats,” and that at least half of them “believe in being Sharia-compliant.” Since he seems to believe that anyone who practices Islam necessarily believes in Sharia, he thinks Muslims cannot be allowed to come to the United States or gain citizenship. Moreover, according to Bannon, 5 to 10 percent of Muslims believe in radical jihad, which means that hundreds of thousands of jihadists will be coming into the United States. Should that happen, the country will be doomed, he thinks.
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