Bannon proudly boasts that he has turned Breitbart into a platform for the alt-right. (I’m sure Andrew Breitbart is turning over in his grave.) The site himself identifies one of the leading thinkers of the alt-right as Richard Spencer. He recommends Spencer.
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/29/an-establishment-conservatives-guide-to-the-alt-right/
“The media empire of the modern-day alternative right coalesced around Richard Spencer”
“In 2010, Spencer founded AlternativeRight.com, which would become a center of alt-right thought.
Alongside other nodes like Steve Sailer’s blog, VDARE and American Renaissance, AlternativeRight.com became a gathering point for an eclectic mix of renegades who objected to the established political consensus in some form or another.”
(Isn’t VDARE banned here at FR? With good reason.)
Spencer and his writers are fans of Dugin.
http://alternative-right.blogspot.com/2013/12/transitioning-from-modernity-review-of.html
http://alternative-right.blogspot.com/2013/12/transitioning-from-modernity-review-of_30.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/altright/comments/4x3fm2/richard_spencerask_me_anything/
“My name is Richard Spencer. I coined the term “Alternative Right”; I write at RadixJournal.com (and some other places), organize NPI conferences, and edit Washington Summit Publishers and Radix books.”
“Constitutional conservatives can’t stand the alt-right. Conservatives — real conservatives — believe that only a philosophy of limited government, God-given rights and personal responsibility can save the country. And that creed is not bound to race or ethnicity. Broad swaths of the alt-right, by contrast, believe in a creed-free, race-based nationalism, insisting, among other things, that birth on American soil confers superiority. The alt-right sees limited-government constitutionalism as passé; it holds that only nationalist populism on the basis of shared tribal identity can save the country. It’s a movement shot through with racism and anti-Semitism.”
“As one of its own, Richard Spencer, explained: ‘Breitbart has elective affinities with the alt-right, and the alt-right has clearly influenced Breitbart. In this way, Breitbart has acted as a ‘gateway’ to alt-right ideas and writers.’”
(BTW, Bannon is an ex-Goldman Sachs banker.)
Dugin rejects the Enlightenment (the foundation of the Founders’ thinking) and declares “the West” to be the enemy. Spencer writes articles favorable to Dugin, and Bannon favors Spencer.
Now, please note that I do not think this reflects President-elect Trump’s views, although I am a bit disturbed by Donald Jr.’s offhand remark that hsi father believes in “racehorse theory.” but as I noted before (quoting Morton Blackwell, on of the conservative movement’s best strategists), “personnel is policy.”
Bannon will most likely try to bring in as many of his “alt-right” allies as he can, and that will make the new Administration something I don’t think we or Trump intended it to be.
You have to be careful with whom you stand.
All that being said, Trump knows what his goals are. If his vision is not being implemented, he’s not the one going. They will be!
The West and corrupt, dying from the virus of liberalism.
Mass immigration, secularism, globalism and cultural attrition are acids eating away at its foundation.
We cannot hope to have a traditional country until we attack the agents of decay at the source.