{"id":112589,"date":"2017-02-07T12:44:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T20:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=112589"},"modified":"2017-02-07T12:44:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T20:44:30","slug":"what-steve-bannon-wants-you-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=112589","title":{"rendered":"What Steve Bannon Wants You to Read"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Politico<\/a>:<\/p>\n

If Taleb and Yarvin laid some of the theoretical groundwork for Trumpism, the most muscular and controversial case for electing him president\u2014and the most unrelenting attack on Trump\u2019s conservative critics\u2014came from Michael Anton, a onetime conservative intellectual writing under the pseudonym Publius Decius Mus.<\/p>\n

Thanks to an entree from Thiel, Anton now sits on the National Security Council staff. Initial reports indicated he would serve as a spokesman, but Anton is set to take on a policy role, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. A former speechwriter for Rudy Giuliani and George W. Bush\u2019s National Security Council, Anton most recently worked as a managing director for BlackRock, the Wall Street investment firm.<\/p>\n

Hiring Anton puts one of the key intellectual forces behind Trump in the West Wing. In his blockbuster article \u201cThe Flight 93 Election,\u201d a 4,300-plus-word tract published in September 2016 under his pseudonym, Anton strikes many of the same notes as Taleb and Yarvin. \u201cAmerica and the West are on a trajectory toward something very bad,\u201d he writes. He blasts conservatives as \u201ckeepers of the status quo\u201d for refusing to take account of the need for \u201ctruly fundamental\u201d change\u2014especially a crackdown on immigration that he argues is promoting \u201cethnic separatism\u201d and risks entrenching a permanent Democratic majority.<\/p>\n

Anton is no blind Trump supporter\u2014the analogy in his essay\u2019s title suggests that electing the Manhattan mogul was merely an alternative to the certain civilizational death of choosing another member of the \u201cbipartisan junta\u201d that he says is driving America \u201coff a cliff.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die,\u201d he writes. \u201cYou may die anyway. You\u2014or the leader of your party\u2014may make it into the cockpit and not know how to fly or land the plane. There are no guarantees.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will Trumpism work, Anton asks? He\u2019s not sure\u2014but he argues that it\u2019s worth trying, given the alternative: \u201c[T]he ceaseless importation of Third World foreigners with no tradition of, taste for, or experience in liberty means that the electorate grows more left, more Democratic, less Republican, less republican, and less traditionally American with every cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anton\u2019s real target is his fellow conservative intellectuals, who by opposing Trump are \u201cobjectively pro-Hillary\u201d\u2014a choice he warns will lead to \u201cCaesarism, secession\/crack-up, collapse, or managerial Davoisie liberalism as far as the eye can see.\u201d<\/p>\n

If that sounds like a highbrow expression of Trumpism\u2014his inaugural address ripping the \u201cestablishment\u201d in both parties for allegedly selling out the American people to foreign interests\u2014it\u2019s because it is. Hiring Anton speaks to Bannon\u2019s ambition to displace traditional American conservatism with the sort of populist nationalism that Trump rode to office, and that his allies say is merely a return to the country\u2019s original ideals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Politico: If Taleb and Yarvin laid some of the theoretical groundwork for Trumpism, the most muscular and controversial case for electing him president\u2014and the most unrelenting attack on Trump\u2019s conservative critics\u2014came from Michael Anton, a onetime conservative intellectual writing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112590,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112589\/revisions\/112590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}