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fascists and white supremacists His fondness for a French reactionary has made headlines, but he has cited worse BEN NORTON, ALTERNET SKIP TO COMMENTS TOPICS: ALTERNET, BREITBART NEWS, FASCISM, HITLER, HUFFINGTON POST, MEIN KAMPF, NAZI, STEVEN BANNON, TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, WHITE SUPREMACY, POLITICS NEWS, MEDIA NEWS 2 of 12 03/26/2017 11:17 AM
Steve Bannon (Credit: Jeffrey Malet, maletphoto.com) This article originally appeared on AlterNet. Steve Bannon just can t help himself. Despite the media glare that comes with being the president s chief strategist, the former Breitbart editor-in-chief continues to cite fascists and white supremacists without compunction or even discretion. A recent investigation by the Hu ngton Post 3 of 12 03/26/2017 11:17 AM
exposed how Bannon s fondness for The Camp of the Saints, an obscure French novel that portrays a race war between the civilized white West and the evil brown hordes of the so-called East. The Hu ngton Post highlighted several interviews in 2015 and 2016 in which Bannon compared global politics and the refugee crisis to the plot of the book, which has been likened to Adolf Hitler s Mein Kampf. The Camp of the Saints, which takes its title from the Bible, was written by ultrareactionary French author Jean Raspail, who openly describes himself as a royalist who wants to restore the Catholic monarchy. In the book, he describes hordes of Indians trying to conquer white Western Christendom as thousands of wretched creatures and turd-eaters. 4 of 12 03/26/2017 11:17 AM
The Hu ngton Post described the novel Bannon admires as nothing less than a call to arms for the white Christian West, to revive the spirit of the Crusades and steel itself for bloody con ict against the poor black and brown world without and the traitors within. Yet Bannon s admiration of The Camp of the Saints is by no means an isolated example of his extreme far-right politics. The New York Times pointed out that Trump s right-hand man cited Nazi-a liated Italian philosopher Julius Evola in a 2014 speech at a Christian conference. Benito Mussolini, the founder of Italian fascism, greatly admired Evola. The Italian leader of the extreme right-wing Traditionalist movement wrote for fascist publications and journals, espousing 5 of 12 03/26/2017 11:17 AM
anti-democratic and anti-egalitarian ideas. Evola was virulently racist and anti-semitic and openly claimed that non-european races were inferior. He also condoned patriarchal domination of women and advocated rape. A big fan of Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler, Evola spent years in Nazi Germany, where he gave lectures. He personally welcomed Mussolini to the Wolf s Lair, Hitler s military headquarters. In a post-war trial in 1951, Evola denied being part of Mussolini s fascist movement, which was apparently not bombastic enough for his tastes; instead, he proudly declared himself to be a superfascist. Neo-fascist leader Richard Spencer told the Times he was excited that Bannon knew of Evola. It means a tremendous amount, Spencer 6 of 12 03/26/2017 11:17 AM
said, adding that Trump s chief strategist is at least open to them. I reported on Bannon s 2014 speech, in which he described his belief in an intractable violent con ict between the enlightened Christian West and the forces of Islam, secularism and socialism. Ben Norton is a politics reporter and staff writer at AlterNet. You can find him on Twitter at @BenjaminNorton. MORE BEN NORTON. COMMENTS 7 of 12 03/26/2017 11:17 AM
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