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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]15. "You couldn't be more dead wrong. America was built on her citizens."
This response from Bannon comes in response to Rose pointing out that the US was conceived as a melting pot. Bannon, um, disagrees. Vehemently.

16. "Economic nationalism is what this country was built on. The American system."
Bannon's argument -- which he goes into slightly more detail on with Rose -- is that the US has to look out for itself and its manufacturing sector, first, second and last. And that people who aren't citizens aren't part of that equation.

he is EVIL and WICKED!!![/quote]
NP here. I don't know about 'evil' or 'wicked' based on those quotes...but he is clearly ignorant and not very bright. Using a phrase like "built on her citizens" after recently having left a job where he worked in a building that was literally built like slaves is insanely tone deaf. Whatever the US was conceived as, it included and enshrined in its founding documents the existence of a second class group of people that was explicitly treated as sub-human. To ignore the blood shed and decisions that reimagined America as a dream open to people of all colors and then again separated women into independent actors and voters is simply un-American. It's a throwback to the American of 1860...and a slap in the face to the Founders who created the US as a country capable of evolution.

And again with the economic nationalism. It's BS. The US has traded internationally since it was a colony. Heck, we financed the American Revolution with foreign monies from France. And we looked for foreign monies for most wars afterward...not to mention that international trade (and the blockade of the South) was a key factor in our Civil War.

He has some delusional notion of America based on a selective reading of a second grade American history textbook. And he expects Americans of all stripes to acquiesce to his views. He's an unAmerican poseur wannabe...and the fact that we elected a lunatic who would put a man like this in a WH advisory role is everything you need to know about what's the worst of us as a country.[/quote]

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