Steve Bannon, n.Definitions

Steve Bannon is like Thomas Cromwell in the court of the Tudors.

Steve Bannon is not a white nationalist but a self-avowed economic nationalist.

Steve Bannon is the Leni Riefenstahl of the Tea Party Movement (I.E. The filmmaker for the third reich).

Steve Bannon is obsessed with a dark theory of history and seems to be trying to bring about the 'fourth turning', a new chapter in American history jumpstarted by a violent world-historical war.

Steve Bannon is obsessed with war, seeing it almost as a kind of poetry and voraciously reading books on military conflicts.

Steve Bannon is looking to create an intercontinental white nationalist movement and already pursuing allegiances with far-right white nationalist parties in Austria, France and the United Kingdom.

Steve Bannon is very familiar with Strauss and Howe's theory of crisis, and has for quite a while been thinking about how to use it to achieve particular goals (i.e. whipping up global crisis in order to then make good use of it).

Steve Bannon is, regardless of whether he himself has racist proclivites, actively and openly giving a platform for white nationalist, which should itself give us pause.