'Darkness is good'
        
Does anyone else think that we may have elected Satan in the form of Steve Bannon into the White House?
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(CNN)Steve Bannon has no regrets. The ex-Breitbart executive, who
serves as Trump's chief strategist for the new administration, told The
Hollywood Reporter that "darkness is good." "Dick Cheney. … 21 hours ago
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Steve Bannon: 'Darkness is good'
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- Bannon's interview largely didn't address the controversies surrounding the top Trump adviser
- It provided insight into the behind-the-scenes at Trump Tower
Washington (CNN)Steve Bannon has no regrets.
The ex-Breitbart executive, who serves as Trump's chief strategist for the new administration, told The Hollywood Reporter that "darkness is good."
"Dick
Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power. It only helps us when they
(liberals) get it wrong. When they're blind to who we are and what we're
doing," he said in an interview published Friday, his first outside of
Breitbart since the election.
Briebart
News, which Bannon has been associated with since its start in 2007,
has been vehemently pro-Trump throughout his presidential campaign, and
is also known for pushing nationalist policy positions, as well as
conspiracy theories, and has been criticized as being racist, sexist and
anti-Semitic.
The interview largely didn't address Bannon's previous controversies, though he denied being a "white nationalist."
"I'm
a nationalist. I'm an economic nationalist," he said in the interview.
"The globalists gutted the American working class and created a middle
class in Asia. The issue now is about Americans looking to not get
f---ed over. If (the Trump White House delivers), we'll get 60 percent
of the white vote, and 40 percent of the black and Hispanic vote and
we'll govern for 50 years. That's what the Democrats missed. They were
talking to these people with companies with a $9 billion market cap
employing nine people. It's not reality. They lost sight of what the
world is about."
Bannon also said he wanted to scrap the establishment Republican Party and start anew with Trump's movement.
"Like
(Andrew) Jackson's populism, we're going to build an entirely new
political movement," he said. "It's everything related to jobs. The
conservatives are going to go crazy. I'm the guy pushing a
trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. With negative interest rates
throughout the world, it's the greatest opportunity to rebuild
everything. Shipyards, iron works, get them all jacked up. We're just
going to throw it up against the wall and see if it sticks. It will be
as exciting as the 1930s, greater than the Reagan revolution --
conservatives, plus populists, in an economic nationalist movement."
He
also said he was a strong follower of Trump's leadership, adding that
the way he speaks helped his message and to get him elected.
"He gets it; he gets it intuitively," Bannon said about Trump. "You
have probably the greatest orator since William Jennings Bryan, coupled
with an economic populist message and two political parties that are so
owned by the donors that they don't speak to their audience."
He said he always knew that former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton would lose the election.
"I
knew that she couldn't close," he said. "They outspent us 10 to one,
had 10 times more people and had all the media with them, but I kept
saying it doesn't matter, they got it all wrong, we've got this locked."
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