LF: Quotes from Trump's new chief strategist, Stephen Bannon

Title: Quotes from Trump's new chief strategist, Stephen Bannon
Source: Mashable
URL Source: http://mashable.com/2016/11/14/steve-bannon-quotes.amp
Published: Nov 15, 2016
Author: Sasha Lekach
Post Date: 2016-11-15 11:06:10 by Deckard
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President-elect Donald Trump's announcement of "alt-right" news executive Stephen Bannon as White House chief strategist has prompted plenty of backlash.

It's not just liberals who don't like the former chairman of Breitbart News -- even conservative commentator Glenn Beck called Bannon a "nightmare" and a "terrifying man."

We took a look at some of the things Bannon, who is celebrated by the white nationalist movement, has said over the years. Plenty of them are offensive, so consider this a warning.

On why liberals hate conservative women like Anne Coulter and Michele Bachmann

" [T]hese women cut to the heart of the progressive narrative. That’s why there are some unintended consequences of the women’s liberation movement. That, in fact, the women that would lead this country would be pro-family, they would have husbands, they would love their children. They wouldn’t be a bunch of dykes that came from the Seven Sisters schools up in New England." -- 2011 radio interview with Political Vindication Radio

On sending his girls to an elite academy in Los Angeles

He "didn't want the girls going to school with Jews ... He said he doesn’t like Jews and that he doesn’t like the way they raise their kids to be ‘whiney brats.'" -- The Guardian, from his wife in court documents filed in 2007. Bannon has denied saying it.

On what keeps him going

Stephen Bannon, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign chairman,
attends Trump's Hispanic advisory roundtable meeting in New York, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016.

Image:

AP Photo/Gerald Herbert

On furthering Tea Party goals

"I’m a Leninist ... Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment." -- The Daily Beast

On Breitbart News

"We call ourselves 'the Fight Club.' You don’t come to us for warm and fuzzy." -- The Washington Post

“We think of ourselves as virulently anti-establishment, particularly ‘anti-’ the permanent political class. We say Paul Ryan was grown in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation." -- The Washington Post

"We hire people who are freaks" and "They don’t have social lives."-- The Washington Post (1 image)

On why liberals hate conservative women like Anne Coulter and Michele Bachmann

On sending his girls to an elite academy in Los Angeles

On what keeps him going

On furthering Tea Party goals

On Breitbart News