You mean fomenting a far-right power grab
https://twitter.com/nbcnews/status/1444338903641645059
He's literally saying it. Why are you letting him do this.
""If you’re going to take over the administrative state and deconstruct it, then you have to have shock troops prepared to take it over immediately," Bannon said in a telephone interview with NBC News."
""If you’re going to take over the administrative state and deconstruct it, then you have to have shock troops prepared to take it over immediately," Bannon said in a telephone interview with NBC News."
Like, what the fuck. It's not 2016 any more. There is no more plausible deniability.
He is not a clever man speaking metaphorically, he's a stupid bully speaking aspirationally. Everything else is bullshit.
Also this is a great example of why you DO NOT repeat what disinformation purveyors say without paraphrasing or at the very least adding context. He's signaling.
Huge frustration here: I hear colleagues bloviating all day long about the need for "media literacy," but God forbid I try to educate them about (extremely well-documented) tactics like signaling. Too many would much rather gaslight me than admit they don't know something
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