You don't choose a politician first and then adhere to them. At least that's not how it should work.
It does if you lack critical thinking.
You don't choose a politician first and then adhere to them. At least that's not how it should work.
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No it doesn't. Engaging with and debating racism, as anything other than something that needs to be stamped out and eradicated, legitimizes it. Bannon doesn't deserve to have a platform, because racism should not be tolerated, rather than legitimized and promoted.Well the idea of populism that Bannon espouses is interesting. By no means does it have me on board, but it is none the less interesting. It’s also a far lot better than the sum of zero offered by his opposition.
In Bannon’s case it creates debate, which is good. Debate is healthy. Simply writing off people as “racist” or “garbage” has no value.
Oh, idunno... 2018 sort of suggests that whatever arguments the Democrats have been making are working. They won the House in a landslide, outpacing expectations, and in an electoral map where they should have absolutely hemorrhaged Senate seats, they managed to stem their losses at two. They also won a majority of Governor's seats that were in play and reduced their statewide deficit from 16-34 to 23-27. They put up some pretty strong results this year, and if Trump and the GOP aren't currently shaking in their boots over what they see, well, that's just fine by me.The next election will be hilarious because it appears the only good arguement is “he’s a Racist, sexist, blah blah blah”. It didn’t work in 2016, and it won’t work now. Unless the left wises up, and gets prepared, Trump will win again in 2020, and if you don’t like Bannon now, you’ll really hate him by 2024.
Must have missed this the last time I posted this.So far I haven’t seen any evidence that Bannon is a racist. No matter how many times its repeat it. Populism is also not racist. If so, please show me how?
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/04/28/breitbartcom-becoming-media-arm-alt-right
Bannon was, as I'm sure you're aware, a founding member of Britbart and took over as executive chair in 2012 after Andrew Breitbart's death. That change corresponded with a increasingly open embrace of the alt right.
There's also the fact Bannon straight-up stated that Bretbart was the platform of the alt-right.
But it’s clear that even saying anything remotely non-critical of either of them is seen as heresey.
I wouldn't call demanding doing what he wants or shutting down the government negotiating, but that's just my...I don't like Trump's style of negotiation...