{"id":1827,"date":"2022-10-13T19:36:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T19:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/10\/13\/populism-reload-an-interview-with-steven-k-bannon\/"},"modified":"2022-10-13T19:36:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T19:36:27","slug":"populism-reload-an-interview-with-steven-k-bannon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/10\/13\/populism-reload-an-interview-with-steven-k-bannon\/","title":{"rendered":"Populism Reload: An Interview with Steven K. Bannon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Bannon talks sense<\/a>. See if you don't agree: <\/span><\/h3>\n

Mark Granza: Let\u2019s talk about the \u201cDeep State<\/a>\u201c. The term is widely used by people on the Right to describe the network of bureaucrats and organizations secretly running the country behind the scenes. Is this in your experience an accurate description of what\u2019s going on in Washington?<\/span><\/h3>\n

Steve Bannon: I think the nomenclature is important to get right. I would rather call it the \u201cadministrative state\u201d, which is really a fourth branch of government never intended by the founders and, quite frankly, the American people. The Administrative State\u2019s purpose, and really the Progressive Left, is to take over all functions of government through these agencies. Up until now they could issue their own regulations and laws, and now they control even their own law enforcement, whether it\u2019s 87,000 IRS agents or these jackbooted FBI or the EPA, with armed security and guards. So our big focus should be its deconstruction. It needs to be taken apart brick by brick. You saw how out of control this was with the CDC and FDA when the pandemic hit, with Tony Fauci as the face of the administrative state that ruled without permission to be questioned. And it\u2019s not that we don\u2019t need an FDA or CDC, but they definitely have to be heavily repurposed. I would say the national security and the intelligence apparatus and part of the legal one are what we would more traditionally think of as a \u201cdeep state\u201d, probably best personified in the first Trump impeachment. If you remember all that kind of fetish about the interagency process and the sacramental nature of the way those things should work when Trump was President, that was really the Deep State saying that Trump was unacceptable because deeply he did not believe in those processes. He did not believe in their function, nor their policies. <\/span><\/p>\n

You can tell this now with Ukraine, these groups have their own goals. It has captured the American national security and foreign policy apparatus, and it needs to be defeated. They don\u2019t believe in the Constitution, they don\u2019t believe that a commander in chief should be able to make his own decisions. You know, I\u2019ve advocated from day one that we need another Church Committee. In the 1970s, after Watergate, after Vietnam, after the assassinations and all the turmoil in the streets, it was determined that the FBI and the CIA had crossed the boundaries of what their mandates were on both surveillance of Americans, infiltration of groups, and all of their tasks really. And so you had the Church Committee set the modern structure for the FBI and CIA as a consequence. But I think that\u2019s been blurred over time. You clearly still have a lot of nefarious activity going on and a lot of stuff that needs to be reviewed. I think we need to get back to that; a total revamping, rethinking and rejuvenation of these apparatuses, whether it\u2019s the NSA, CIA, FBI, DOJ, the military or the armed forces. I\u2019ve spent eight years as a naval officer. My daughter went to West Point. She was with the 101st Airborne Division and deployed to Iraq. So we are all big patriots and huge believers in serving in the military. But things have gone way off track and we definitely need to, not just take a hard look, but have massive reform at those levels.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Bannon talks sense. See if you don't agree:  Mark Granza: Let\u2019s talk about the \u201cDeep State\u201c. The term is widely used by people on the Right to describe the network of bureaucrats and organizations secretly running the country behind the scenes. Is this in your experience an accurate description of what\u2019s going on in … Continue reading “Populism Reload: An Interview with Steven K. Bannon”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-populism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}