Thread by @frodofied

Really @FareedZakaria?

Listen for what exactly?

Ways to appease white nationalists? Ways to make racists feel all warm and fuzzy inside?

Please explain, because I really don't understand what the hell is going on here.

Let's break this down a bit.

#SteveBannon
#CNN

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https://twitter.com/CNNnewsroom/status/1038802279338467328

You had a conversation with a man who looks perfectly normal, seems amiable, even likable. A man who can and will and has lied about his most base beliefs in order to further his real agenda.

Bannon believes our government should be fully dismantled.

@FareedZakaria

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Once dismantled he believes that a "temporary" totalitarian autocracy should be installed for an indeterminate period pending the "reeducation" of combatant citizens.

Those are the core beliefs he has been espousing for decades.

@FareedZakaria

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He is a man who told a recent European audience to be proud of their nativism and to be proud of their racism.

His actual words.

Giving a man like Bannon an inch will leave you miles behind before you can blink.

He is a master of psychology.

He's a player.

@FareedZakaria

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Have you ever actually read Breitbart? He's, you know, the editor of that poisonous alt-right rag. There is no amiability found on those pages Fareed. It's a place only slightly less toxic than 4-chan.

Giving that man your time? Making him & his idea equal to you & yours?

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That's called normalization.

It's why no President before Trump ever sat down with North Korea.

It's why @Oprah stopped Houston the Klan on her shows decades ago.

I know every damned thing I need to about Steve Bannon.

And so do you.

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