‘Populist
national revolt’ grips west and is coming to Australia - Bannon
warns
RT,
3
September, 2018
Former
Trump advisor and right wing firebrand Steve Bannon, who has been
sharing his political philosophy in a series of interviews across the
globe, has claimed that Australia is a “hotbed of populism” and
is ripe for revolution.
In
a contentious interview with ABC’s Sarah Ferguson, the former
executive chairman of the conservative Breitbart News website, said
that the West was in the midst of a “populist national revolt”
and that the global revolution was “coming to Australia” soon.
His comments echoed those he made recently in Europe, where he
envisions helping to form a pan-European far-right political bloc.
Bannon’s major focus in the interview was on China and its relationship with Australia, which he said had been “too much of an appeaser” under former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, who was recently ousted by his own party and replaced by social conservative Scott Morrison.
Bannon
said that Australia was at the “frontlines” of the “economic
war” with China. “Australia is at the tip of the spear of this,”
he said, referencing the currently strained relations between the two
countries over China’s policies in the South China Sea, Australia’s
new foreign interference laws which were seen to be targeting China,
and Australia’s decision to ban Chinese telecoms companies Huawei
and ZTE from supplying equipment for a 5G mobile network over
national security risks — a move which Huawei called “politically
motivated”.
China,
Bannon said, was a “totalitarian mercantilist system” that was at
war with the West and does not play by any rules. “They [China]
don’t have any internal rules. It’s a completely totalitarian
regime,” he said. Bannon called himself a “hawk” on China,
reasoning that if the country is not confronted “bad things are
going to happen”.
Asked
who he thought might end up challenging Trump in the 2020 election,
Bannon said that since we are living in a “media age,” it was
possible someone like Oprah Winfrey or Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
could end up having “real opportunities”.
Some
Australians who took to Twitter after Bannon’s interview weren’t
so sure about the revolution prediction, however, with some
suggesting that Americans like Bannon were known for thinking they
were “God's f*cking gift to the world” and could tell other
countries what to do.
I'm a bit over fast-talking Americans & their know-it-all, arrogant attitudes who come to Australia & think they can tell us all what to do & interrupt all the time, they think they're God's fucking gift to the world. Rack off, we're fine without you Bannon #fourcorners #auspol
One
Australian media personality criticized ABC for giving Bannon such a
huge platform for her revolution “recruitment efforts”.
Curious to understand more about the decision to run Breitbart's Steve Bannon in an open ended one-on-one interview format on Australia's prime-time investigative program, @4corners @FergusonNews? A platform and a half for his particular recruitment efforts.#4Corners
Another
user said Bannon’s rhetoric about revolution was a ploy to “get
workers to vote against their self interest by using nationalism as a
cloak for policies that aid the wealthy,” while another said the
former Trump advisor was “deluding himself” if he thought his
brand of politics would work in Australia.
That Steve Bannon interview on #4corners scared the life out of me. His tricks can work - get workers to vote against their self interest by using nationalism as a cloak for policies that aid the wealthy. Should have focused questions on who benefits most from Trump policies.
Steve Bannon, in thinking he is going to import his special brand of Right-Wing @GOP Poison into #Auspol-ia is deluding himself @FergusonNews. He's deluding himself @JamesDelingpole, because he has no deep knowledge of the rhythms of #Australia's History, the operation of our
Bannon's rhetoric is feeding the frenzy of anxiety of loss. The future will be a last man standing corporate oligarchy shaped by Bannon, Rove, even Thatcher and Reagan, with the 'little man' foolishly voting against his/her interests. We've caught a mild (so far) dose of the clap here in Ontario too: Doug Ford (vote for me: cheap beer and gas fordnation) reframed populist conservatives are retrograde front for the elites. Climate change? Ha! We'll just say you can't name it and it will disappear, so they say. Meanwhile the country burns.
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