{"id":295216,"date":"2017-02-17T03:52:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T02:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bannonphobes-en-vogue\/"},"modified":"2017-02-17T03:52:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T02:52:07","slug":"bannonphobes-en-vogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bannonphobes-en-vogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Bannonphobes En Vogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBannon Cited Italian Thinker Who Inspired Fascists,\u201d reads a recent New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/0x5hq\" target=\"_blank\">headline<\/a>. \u201cPresident Bannon?\u201d reads <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/VBJPd\" target=\"_blank\">another<\/a> from a few weeks earlier. The Atlantic <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/8XhAQ\" target=\"_blank\">calls him<\/a> \u201creportedly a reader of neoreactionary political theory.\u201d Steve Bannon is the White House Chief Strategist and a permanent member of the Principals Committee of the National Security Council. President Donald Trump appointed him to both.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is noteworthy that Trump has little in the way of complex or deep ideological foundations, while his chief adviser seems to have such a background. In a way, that is almost how things should be, with the sovereign dedicated to the art of ruling and his advisers and councilors fulfilling other specialized roles. But the media, who Bannon correctly identified as \u201cthe opposition party,\u201d are in a word, hysterical about this particular man\u2019s rise to the top.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I suppose it is bad enough (for them) to have a bull loose in the Cathedral\u2019s china shop, without a matador leading it deeper into the the place. But even with Trump being the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler according to the media, it is somehow worse still that one of his advisers may be\u00a0an actual reader of near-fascist traditionalist philosophy? For all the horror and hand-wringing signaled over Trump, it is somehow even more alarming who is in his circle? If Trump is the devil of America\u2019s liberal civic religion, how can anything be worse than the devil? How is anything noteworthy beyond&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/bannonphobes-en-vogue\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBannon Cited Italian Thinker Who Inspired Fascists,\u201d reads a recent New York Times headline. \u201cPresident Bannon?\u201d reads another from a few weeks earlier. The Atlantic calls him \u201creportedly a reader of neoreactionary political theory.\u201d Steve Bannon is the White House Chief Strategist and a permanent member of the Principals Committee of the National Security Council. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-295216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}