This isn’t terribly surprising, especially knowing that Bannon also has a love for Julius Evola, who himself had an allegiance with Mussolini.
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This guy was an advisor to the President of the United States.
That should cast a bright light on the notion that there were “fine people” marching with the Nazis in Charlottesville.
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I think it’s more like a joke that needs explanation—in other words, a failed joke. 
“Upper middlebrow” always seemed to me like a shorthand way to describe people who try to punch above their weight class intellectually. Maybe I should just say it longhand from now on.
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That’s all over Europe, as far north as you can go. Remember Breivik, and Norway’s got a particularly bad report card in terms of the far right. So much for being all modern and “Scandinavian,” and well in the top ten worldwide for “quality of life.”
But I don’t think I can, or anyone in this country can, throw stones at Europe. We’ve got the room to assimilate however many people want to wash up on these shores, but we’ve got Trump in the White House and White Supremacists walking around with loaded weapons in plain sight.
He was clearly loved by women. He was a guy’s guy
That’s right Steve. And in the end it turns out he was well hung.
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I wouldn’t mind seeing a riding crop used on him.
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Because not too long ago this “guy’s guy” was in an office just off the Oval Office documenting his own master plan on a white board. He might not be in the White House now, but his schemes continue apace. We need to be aware of that.
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What I’m talking about is a uniquely Italian paranoia that is evidenced by the continued affection felt by a significant number of Italians for fascism and Mussolini. Steve Bannon’s idol. Which is why I brought it up. Every country has its ugly underbelly. Mussolini is part of Italy’s.
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Yeah you can see why so many Italians fall for Berlusconi.
Cut from a similar, slightly higher end, cloth.
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maybe he and ann coulter could get married!
ghandi, kennedy, obama, also all loved by women. try again ya damned fool
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eh, you’d be surprised who was wandering around europe at that time - all kinds of advance scouts, people detached from their units…
how I loved his trilogy when I was young, and was so disappointed to find out how he became a rightwinger
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Yep…
OT, but this article in the April Atlantic Monthly is a REALLY good overview of how so many evangelical Christians in this country devolved into flaming hypocrites. Just an awesome read.
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I still love the book.
@edys - Thanks for that article; it’s awesome, although the author mentions something that doesn’t exist: partial birth abortion and does so because she was raised an evangelical and thinks they’ve only now become hypocrites and I would beg to differ.
But it’s a good read overall.
Still, they’re cousins,
Identical cousins and you’ll find,
They laugh alike, they walk alike,
At times they even talk alike -
You can lose your mind,
When cousins are two of a kind.
What a crazy pair
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Wasn’t it terrific?
Magical thinking is a slippery slope. Evangelical Christianity lives on that slope, so I take anyone from that school of thought with a grain of salt.
But that doesn’t dilute the power of this article for me. He really didn’t pull any punches here. It was a smart, passionately felt, beautifully written article that offered some really valuable insights.
I would challenge any bible thumping Trumpster — who can read — to read it without cringing. Actually, I’d like to duck tape most of the GOP members of the house and senate to their damn chairs and read it to them. Slowly. Twice 
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