I felt quite ignorant TBH watching as I had naively assumed the MAGA lot would want Iranian nuclear capability wiped out. But it seems they genuinely see this as yet again the deep state getting some steer on the administration to destroy MAGA.. It seems these guys want to ruthlessly pursue the objectives of MAGA; Stop the forever wars, seal the border and deport the illegal alien invaders and bring well paid manufacturing jobs back to the US by redoing the commercial agreements throughout the world by revised trade agreements. Pretty crazy but after watching this i do feel the absolute objective of Trump is to genuinely force resolutions to these conflicts. I wasn't sure at the end whether Bannon believes some world war that we are already in will end with the US stronger or weaker.
I dont know about MAGA - i mean im not sure its one thing. Bannon is saying that in effect; its a coalition that could split over this.
But him and his lot; they absolutely mean it K. Its about the American worker and no more wars and tearing down the vested interests that in his view run an Imperialist project for the benefit of the upper classes. I think he has described himself as a Leninist before.
Hes not a Marxist though - if you searched the site you'd find me talking about him as an actual fascist years ago, by which I don't mean racist - that's not what big F fascism is. I mean a corporatist (which also doesnt mean what people might assume from misused terms). I think he wants an america arranged around wealth creators taking care of the American worker and society, a much more 'socialist' arrangement than America has ever had, and america absolutely out of the business of meddling with the world. To be fair to him, some of these qualities- the absence of martial ambitions etc -disqualify him from being a fascist. I think he is a corporatist, which fascism included in their hodge podge make it up as you go along project. But then its also social democracy really.
He is making the point that what people perceive as power is not actual power. They have a hand full of placemen ostensibly in charge of institutions that are substantially integrated with the democrat party, but more than that, like turbo charged Sir Humphreys, 'tolerate' politicians of either side, while they go about running things as those administrations come and go.
I do believe Trump would like to see and end to wars and American 'Imperialism' but perhaps paradoxically im not sure Trump is actually Maga, not like Bannon is anyway. He is a typical CEO, listening to and balancing the inputs and interests of multiple stakeholders.
But you can see in this why Trump wants to emulate Obama and ignore Congress. Its not (just) because he wants to be king its because he believes they are working to vested interests not the interests of the American people. How much is paranoia and how much well founded? I really dont know. On top of that Trump is in it for the grift
in addition to having real goals, not instead. But Bannon isnt, Vance isn't. These guys walked away in disgust from the money grubbing industries that made them rich and could have made them much much richer with a lot less hassle. In a way that makes them scarier, but also potentially agents of positive change. Again I really dont know. Its an actual radical project, which we haven't had since Thatcher, and its virtually the opposite of her.
