02-01-2017, 09:40 AM
(02-01-2017, 12:43 AM)Benton Wrote: That's the fear with some of Bannon's moves. Personally I think it's unfounded.
BUT, in the end, it rests with Congress. They are the biggest check against the Executive Branch. My personal concern is in their attempt to scratch their own backs, they'll not provide enough checks for the net few years. Not dictatorship level abuses, but "hey, let's get our due while we can."
This is rather chilling:
“I’m a Leninist,” Bannon proudly proclaimed.
Shocked, I asked him what he meant. “Lenin,” he answered, “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.” Bannon was employing Lenin’s strategy for Tea Party populist goals. He included in that group the Republican and Democratic Parties
That came from here: http://www.gq.com/story/steve-bannon-shadow-president
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
