“It’s not hard to see why The Fourth Turning’s apocalyptic…vision wld appeal to..Bannon; it offers the perfect rationalization for sociopathic behavior. He’s not breaking stuff for the thrill of it—he’s executing history’s larger plan for all of us…” 1/ newrepublic.com/article/161574…
Article by @AddieStan 2/
“From his podcast’s YouTube channel, which claimed 330,000 subscribers before the platform shut it down permanently on January 8, Bannon aired the strategic rhetoric that inspired the insurrection in plain sight” 3/
“[T]he true believers assembled in St. Louis a year and a half ago included nearly all of the crew that would later drive Trump’s Stop the Steal campaign.” 4/
“Political operative Ali Alexander, dirty trickster Jack Posobiec (now a host at One America News Network), Bannon sidekick Raheem Kassam, and utility player Scott Presler had all claimed spots on panels at the event;” Bannon attended too. 5/
“Eagles president Ed Martin, a Bannon associate, was conducting the whole show.” 6/
“in August 2020, when federal agents arrested Bannon for fraud stemming from a fundraising campaign ostensibly devoted to Trump’s border wall with Mexico, [Bannon] was taken into custody while aboard Guo’s yacht, anchored off the coast of Connecticut.” 7/
“Fourth Turning or no, Bannon now really needed Trump’s attention; he needed a pardon.” 8/
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10/ “If Trump failed to seize power by force, [Stewart] Rhodes said, Oath Keepers and the like-minded would have to do it for him, in what he called ‘a much more bloody war.’” - December 12
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