Jonathan Easley — Bannon back at Breitbart after White House ouster

President Trump’s former chief strategist Stephen Bannon returned to Breitbart News on Friday just hours after parting ways with the White House.

Bannon has reclaimed the title of executive chairman for Breitbart and directed the outlet’s Friday editorial meeting, the website said in a statement on Friday.

“The populist-nationalist movement got a lot stronger today,” said Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow. “Breitbart gained an executive chairman with his finger on the pulse of the Trump agenda.

The Hill
Bannon back at Breitbart after White House ouster
Jonathan Easley

Bannon spoke to the Weekly Standard Friday afternoon, shortly after news of his departure from the White Housebroke. He told TWS that his leaving the administration marked a turning point for Trump's presidency.

"The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over," Bannon said. "We still have a huge movement, and we will make something of this Trump presidency. But that presidency is over. It'll be something else. And there'll be all kinds of fights, and there’ll be good days and bad days, but that presidency is over."

Washington Free Beacon
In Interview, Bannon Says After His Departure Trump Presidency ‘Is Over’

Charles Fain Lehman

Breitbart News Hires from Wall Street Journal; Veteran Journalist John Carney to Lead Finance, Economics Coverage

This is from January, but I missed it. It's significant since John is MMT-aware and friendly even though he is in the Austrian economics camp.

Breitbart News

Breitbart News Hires from Wall Street Journal; Veteran Journalist John Carney to Lead Finance, Economics Coverage

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The Atlantic
Breitbart News Tries to Go Mainstream
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Adam Garrie — The problem with intellectualising Steve Bannon

Adam Garrie makes the valid point that Steve Bannon has become the focus of the intellectual aspects of Traditionalism but that Bannon himself is not an intellectual, or so his previous life would suggest. Moreover, he has not commented on the various intellectual aspects of Traditionalism other than briefly and in a cursory manner that suggests he is not interested in being a thought leader. Moreover, it is not clear what the primary influences on him may be. 

Therefore, it would be a mistake to view either Bannon or Trump as Traditionalist thought leaders or heavily influenced by Traditionalist thought instead of as chiefly political agents that can be broadly identified as Traditionalist in their analytic and governing approach. 

The Left appears to be making this mistake, or attempting to identify Steve Bannon and Donald Trump as extremists based on flimsy association. Some are making them out to fascists when Fascism is one of the four major political theories along with Liberalism, Marxism, and Traditionalism, and Traditionalism is opposed to Fascism. Instead, the Left needs to put its own house in order if it aims to be taken as more than an opposition.

The Left also needs to wake up to the fact that Traditionalism strongly supports the family rather than the individual and therefore it aligned with "the little people," that is, ordinary workers with no political voice in the present system. The Left wrongly assumes that this is cohort is naturally aligned with the Left but that was not the case in the recent presidential election.

This is not to minimize the significance of the various cohorts of Traditionalism that are in play nationally in the US and internationally among the rising Right. They are part of the Trump-Bannon coalition domestically and potential allies internationally. As such they are part of the political mix as such their views and aspirations will be a factor in politics and policy. But rolling all this into Steven Bannon as a symbol is not supported by evidence, and less so for Donald Trump.

The Duran
The problem with intellectualising Steve Bannon
Adam Garrie

Pam and Russ Martens — A Closer Look at Donald Trump’s Chief Strategist, Stephen K. Bannon

The Citizens United connection. More dots to connect.

Wall Street On Parade
A Closer Look at Donald Trump’s Chief Strategist, Stephen K. Bannon
Pam and Russ Martens

Getting to know Breitbart and its chairman, Steve Bannon, better

Bannon's Breitbart is Trump's Fox News. This is the real story rather than the alt-right connection of Steve Bannon. It explains why a person with Bannon's elite background got involved with Breitbart and how it brought him to the White House. This was a well-executed plan.

The Daily Wire
I Know Trump's New Campaign Chairman, Steve Bannon. Here's What You Need To Know.

Ben Shapiro

Bloomberg BusinessWeek
This Man Is the Most Dangerous Political Operative in America

Joshua Green | October 8, 2015

Salon

Steve Bannon’s web of weirdness: Meet the bizarre billionaires behind the president-elect’s chief strategist

Heather Digby Parton

Fortune
Why Breitbart News Will Be the Closest Thing to a State-Owned Media Entity
Mathew Ingram

The Washington Post
Where does Breitbart end and Bannon and the new administration begin?

Paul Fahrl

Land Destroyer
Trump's Administration: The Swamp Deepens
Tony Cartalucci

Update:

BuzzFeed News
This Is How Steve Bannon Sees The Entire World

J. Lester Feder

h/t lastgreek in the comments

The Hill
What Stephen Bannon wants to do in Trump’s White House

Jonathan Swan