Bannon realigns Breitbart political strategy after removal from Trump administration
By
Eric London
2 September 2017
In the wake of the formal break between the Trump administration and advisers Stephen Bannon and Sebastian Gorka in mid- to late August, the far-right is attempting to build a new political base outside the framework of the Democratic and Republican parties. In a series of recent interviews, Bannon and Gorka have indicated that their aim is to direct social opposition in an extreme nationalist direction and link it with powerful sections of the military, media, police and intelligence apparatus with which they made connections during their months in the White House.
The platform for this realignment is the website Breitbart News, to which Bannon, Trump’s fascist former campaign manager and special adviser, has now returned as executive chairman. “In the White House I had influence,” he told the Economist on August 25. “At Breitbart, I had power.” The move has the support of powerful sections of the American aristocracy like the billionaire Mercer family, which has provided millions of its Wall Street profits to grease the wheels of American fascism.
Gorka has also rejoined Breitbart and aired his grievances with the “globalist” faction of the Trump administration in an interview published on Breitbart this past week: “People like myself, people like Steve Bannon, came into the building because of a very clear agenda, which was the MAGA agenda, Make America Great Again—and, in the last seven months, we’ve seen people who really had nothing to do with MAGA, who weren’t affiliated with the campaign, rise in influence inside the building.”
As a result, Gorka said, the far right must “take the game to the outside” where “we are…