Speaker 1: Steve Bannon has been making major waves across conservative media
Speaker 1: and political circles in the past few days. He generated
Speaker 1: headlines after laying out a detailed and highly controversial strategy
Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty six mid terms on his war
Speaker 1: Room podcast, a plan that progressive outlets like The Young
Speaker 1: Turks have called a blueprint for election subversion. According to
Speaker 1: Tyt and Media Matters, Bannin is pushing for a MAXIMALUS
Speaker 1: crackdown on mail in voting, demanding new congressional redistricting initiatives
Speaker 1: in key Republican states, and bluntly advocating for the use
Speaker 1: of federal agents, including ICE and even the National Guard,
Speaker 1: at polling sites in Democrat leaning cities, ideas widely criticized
Speaker 1: as authoritarian and potentially unconstitutional. Not stopping there, he is
Speaker 1: calling for a mid decade census to exclude undocumented immigrants,
Speaker 1: a step legal scholars Warren would not survive scrutiny in
Speaker 1: the mainstream news. Axios reports Bannin has forcefully injected him
Speaker 1: into the current MAGA debate over U S security guarantees
Speaker 1: to Ukraine, blasting Trump's diplomatic overtures and warning that any
Speaker 1: serious US commitment risks unleashing of World War underscoring his
Speaker 1: influence as a leading isolationist voice inside the movement. There's
Speaker 1: also intense palace intrigue swirling around his ambitions. AOL reports
Speaker 1: that Bannon is privately telling confidence he could mount a
Speaker 1: run for president in twenty twenty eight, driven by a
Speaker 1: belief that the populist right will need a new champion,
Speaker 1: whether or not Trump can continue as the movement's standard bearer.
Speaker 1: At the same time, Ross Dautfit of The New York
Speaker 1: Times recently sat down with Bannon to dissect the cluster
Speaker 1: of rival MAGA camps vying for power in a potential
Speaker 1: Trump second term, confirming Bannon's role as both kingmaker and
Speaker 1: potential rival. On the policy front, Bannon has been vocal
Speaker 1: about Trump's pending plan to slap heavy tariffs on Canadian goods,
Speaker 1: telling globals Ashley Stewart that Canada ought to rethink its
Speaker 1: economic relationship with the United States if the tariffs are enacted,
Speaker 1: framing it as a test of Trump era nationalist muscle. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Bannon has ramped up his critique of Congressional Republicans, saying
Speaker 1: on talk radio and social media. As reported by AOL
Speaker 1: that they fail to sell Trump's latest legislative victories to voters,
Speaker 1: accusing them of wasting the movement's momentum. Social media chatter
Speaker 1: remains brisk on Instagram. Viral clips from both Wall Street
Speaker 1: Journal and grassroots accounts are recycling his old but persistent
Speaker 1: flood the zone chaos strategy, with some pundits suggesting he
Speaker 1: is still the shadow architect of right wing communication and disruption.
Speaker 1: The buzz comes amid growing unease about his openly stated
Speaker 1: desire to overwhelm the system, proof that Steve Bannon's messaging
Speaker 1: machine is firing on all cylinders and that he remains
Speaker 1: one of the most divisive and consequential figures on the
Speaker 1: American right. No new legal actions or major court rulings
Speaker 1: concerning Bannon have SSS surfaced in the last several days,
Speaker 1: and speculation about his twenty twenty eight ambitions remains just
Speaker 1: that speculation, with no official steps taken. For now. Bannon
Speaker 1: is everywhere in the news, maneuvering for relevance and controversy
Speaker 1: ahead of the next big political cycle. And that is
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