{"id":186354,"date":"2018-01-14T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T18:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=186354"},"modified":"2018-01-18T12:23:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T06:53:47","slug":"trump-without-bannon-a-new-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/trump-without-bannon-a-new-phase\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Without Bannon: A New Phase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p3\"><strong><span class=\"s2\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Kumar+David\">Kumar David<\/a> &#8211;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_157865\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Kumar-David-Colombo-Telegraph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-157865\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-157865\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Kumar-David-Colombo-Telegraph-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Kumar-David-Colombo-Telegraph-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Kumar-David-Colombo-Telegraph-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-157865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof. Kumar David<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong><span class=\"s2\"><span class=\"s1\">America\u2019s Alt-Right surges; Pax Americana erodes<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cIn essence populism believes that society is divided into two homogeneous but antagonistic groups, ordinary people and a corrupt elite. It argues that social change is possible only through a radical pruning of the power of the elite\u201d ~\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\"><i>Monumental Populist <\/i>by<i> <\/i>Ivan Krastev\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p9\"><span class=\"s2\">Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte is a homicidal thug but it is also true that the drug problem is out of control. Xi Jinping\u2019s thoughts are famously unoriginal but, no worry, have been enshrined in the Party constitution. Trump is idiosyncratic, psychologically unstable and gaffe prone, but is there an inherent and unintended design to his insanity? These questions are asked because the faithful sustain apparently irrational enthusiasm and continue to resonate with their leader. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p9\"><span class=\"s2\">Trump\u2019s appeal for those fed up-with the establishment is unsurprising. It is hopelessness and frustration that propelled him to power. To this America, the Democratic Party had, and has, nothing to offer. And it is Steve Bannon, not DJT, who is the authentic voice of angry far right populism. The ways of Bannon and Trump are now parting; this is a crucial watershed on the American right. DJT removed Bannon form the position of White House Chief Strategist under pressure from Chief of Staff John Kelly brought into to discipline a brawling White House mob and appease GOP leaders and the media. Bannon is now on a warpath against the \u2018traitors\u2019 surrounding DJT.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_186355\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Trump-and-Steve-Bannon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186355\" class=\"wp-image-186355 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Trump-and-Steve-Bannon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Trump-and-Steve-Bannon.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Trump-and-Steve-Bannon-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-186355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bannon and Trump: In politics there are no permanent friends or foes | Photo courtesy http:\/\/datechguyblog.com\/<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p9\"><span class=\"s2\">Bannon (Virginia Tech, Bachelor in Urban Planning; Harvard Business School, MBA) is from a pro-Kennedy, pro-Union, working class family in Virginia. He is no clown like DJT but a visionary. Here is a sample beyond the reach of Trump\u2019s intellectual prowess:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p10\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThis is a populist, nationalist, conservative revolt. It\u2019s a revolt against the elites in this country. It\u2019s a revolt against the globalists among those elites. It\u2019s a revolt against the progressive agenda that is being jammed down the throat of the American people. Hard-working men and women of the world are tired of the global elites. They\u2019re tired of being told what to do. This is a global revolution.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p11\"><span class=\"s2\">Bannon has not yet denounced Trump as a sell-out who betrayed the base which elected him and aligned himself with the elitist swamp that he promised to drain. DJT is an opportunist dealmaker pure and simple whose lodestar is only DJT himself. Aware of the threat from a shifting base he is straining to sell his proposed tax-cuts as relief for low income earners; in truth it is pure gravy for the rich and for corporations. <\/span><span class=\"s3\">Trump has declared \u201cBannon cried when he got fired and begged for his job. Now Sloppy Steve has been dumped like a dog by almost everyone. Too bad!\u201d Bannon, the prophet of Alt-Right neo-populism, may be playing a deeper waiting game. Nothing certain can be said yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p11\"><span class=\"s2\">The widely accepted view of the Republican Party is an oversimplification. Conventional wisdom has it that it is the party of big capital and hidebound conservatives while the \u2018base\u2019 is discounted as dumb frogs in the well. This is incorrect; it consists of two constituencies, big capital and the \u2018Alt-Right\u2019. The latter is an authentic social force; middlebrow, conservative, provincial, somewhat underprivileged and now includes recently alienated white workers. My thesis is that the social and class character of the GOP are more complex than the prevalent sanguine view. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p11\"><span class=\"s2\">For decades the \u2018base\u2019, did not shine independently and was taken for granted by the leadership till the Tea Party Movement surfaced. Liberals and left despised the \u2018base\u2019 and failed to understand its social rootedness. Why did it lie dormant for so long? Because America lived on borrowed time and money; for most folk, life was good enough. Now existential livelihoods are falling apart and at the same time US global economic influence is in decline and there are setbacks to its military reach. \u2018Make America Great Again\u2019 resonates with those who took \u2018America is the Greatest\u2019 for granted, but are now disoriented. The \u2018base\u2019, like DJT, inhabits a parallel universe of ethereal visions. The leadership in Congress is overawed by a President cum Alt-Right alliance, but the alliance is fraying, so enter Steve Bannon and such like voices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p12\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>Fire and Fury<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p11\"><span class=\"s2\">A 336-page book released on 5 January (<i>Fire and Fury<\/i> by Michael Wolff) <\/span><span class=\"s3\">received extensive local and international coverage with the UK Times front page casting doubt on DJT\u2019s mental health and Germany\u2019s top conservative paper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, asking \u201cIs Trump still sane?\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The book <\/span><span class=\"s2\">is about infighting in the White House and, inter alia, details Bannon\u2019s moves to rebuild the neo-populist right because DJT has sold out to the \u201cswamp\u201d, the Republican upper class. Lawyers for the President demanded that Wolff and publisher desist from publication. <\/span><span class=\"s4\">The result,<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> unprecedented demand and the release date advanced to 5 from 9 January. It sold out on the first day. <\/span><span class=\"s3\">Trump spent a day raging about the book and sent out a twitter message \u201cSteve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind.\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p13\"><span class=\"s2\">Wolff says Bannon, chief executive of the Trump election campaign, called DJT campaign-staff\u2019s meetings with Russians \u201ctreasonous\u201d and adds that DJT\u2019s advisors tried to explain the constitution to him but \u201ccould not get past the Fourth Amendment\u201d. Wolff also claims that daughter Ivanka and husband Jared Kushner discussed, in his presence, plans for the former to run as a future presidential candidate. Some of Wolff\u2019s claims are odd, for example: a) Trump neither wanted nor expected to win. b) The family was alarmed when he won, fearing a cock-up of the presidency. c) Donald Jr. said his father looked as if he had \u201cseen a ghost\u201d when he realized he had won, and d) Melania Trump was in tears of despair. Wolff is a dicey character and how much of what he says to believe is open to question. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p11\"><span class=\"s2\">Two new books <i>Alt-America<\/i> by psychologist George Hawley and <i>Making Sense of the Alt-Right<\/i> by <\/span><span class=\"s5\">David Neiwert <\/span><span class=\"s2\">explore a world of white resentment.<\/span> <span class=\"s2\">Neiwert scorns the media for failing to see the threat posed by neo-populism and the role of white nationalism in DJT\u2019s victory. Hawley says the Alt-Right is difficult to classify; its core is racist but different from its white supremacist predecessors in that it is \u201catomised, amorphous and largely anonymous\u201d. Far-right activist Hunter Wallace wrote on an Alt-Right website, \u201cliberals share the blinkered world-view that more liberty and equality is the solution to every problem. We see something else. We don\u2019t believe in any of the standard bullshit \u2013 nothing is less self-evident to us than the notion that all men are created equal\u201d!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p11\"><span class=\"s2\">Alt-Right transcends conventional right-left divides and has no interest in conservative tenets such as tradition and liberty. It is not just racist, it is radical; its radicalism is the degree to which it rejects other values. Alt-Right people hold divergent views and combine different elements of left and right thought. Not only free marketers, but some socialists too denounce the \u2018political class\u2019, shun middle of the road parties and rely only on mass action; these are elements of neo-populism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p11\"><span class=\"s2\">Which brings me to the quote from Ivan Kristev reproduced at the top. Kristev and the authors I have summarised above see neo-populism\/Alt-Right in psychological and behavioural terms. Their analyses, though illuminating, lacks depth and scrutiny of systemic roots.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Sans a perspective of the life-cycle of capitalism and its stages of growth, prosperity, stasis and catastrophe, analytical rigour is superficial. It\u2019s all about \u2018who thought what\u2019 and \u2018who felt how\u2019. A materialist social and economic perspective is absent. A bland sociological version, without the hard side, is tinsel. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p12\"><span class=\"s2\"><b> <\/b>What are the implications for social developments? DJT may be impeached, or quit, or cling on till the end of his term, but the misery of the neo-pops will not end and the effect of the changes he has wrought in US foreign policy will persist. The return of a sane president will not restore the status quo because, in a paradoxical way, the foreign policy fixes DJT has invoked fit America\u2019s reduced global role and is better aligned to its weakened economic and military standing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p12\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>Sea changes in foreign policy <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p9\"><span class=\"s2\">Consider the following roughly in order of importance. Recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, thus dismaying Muslim states, complicating relations with ally Saudi Arabia and invoking a UN General Assembly snub; losing global economic hegemony to China and impotent to prevent Chinese military parity within two decades; losing hegemony to Russia in the Syrian-Iraqi-Turkish theatre; further despoiling relations with Iran; confronting North Korea, shouting \u201cI have a Bigger Button than you\u201d and aggravating the potential for nuclear conflict; upsetting relations with Europe and putting NATO under stress; raising tensions with Pakistan, Venezuela, Mexico and Canada. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p9\"><span class=\"s2\">Partly this is just Trump, the bull in the China shop, but against a background of declining US wealth and power, those who may have read it are reminded of Edward Gibbon\u2019s <i>Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. <\/i>Insane Emperor Caligula appointed his horse as a Senator; DJT\u2019s creature of choice is the pussy. However, it was not balmy emperors but hard facts that threw the Empire into tailspin. There was a fall in agricultural output in the surrounding countryside, Northern Italy was being increasingly settled by Germanic tribes (immigration; <i>sic!<\/i>) and the Legions were militarily overstretched across the vastness of the Empire. There were other factors as well; the split between Eastern (Constantinople) and Western (Rome) Empires was the most significant political factor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p9\"><span class=\"s2\">I don\u2019t want to overdraw parallels, but it is the decline of America\u2019s material prowess, the weakening of its economy compared to Asia, the diminishing role of the dollar and petrodollar \u2013 I will discuss this in a future piece \u2013 and the erosion of military dominance, that underlie the change. We are passing through interesting times. Internally, America is becoming a different and diminished country, and overall, global balances are being restructured. The old status quo cannot be restored. The foreign policy changes that are being invoked, albeit by a nutter, are consonant with America\u2019s weakened global economic and military capabilities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":157865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trump Without Bannon: A New Phase - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/trump-without-bannon-a-new-phase\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump Without Bannon: A New Phase - 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