Bannonism will not be leaving the White House any time soon. Stevie B. won’t have to marry Tiffany or Barron (see Milo Yiannopolos).
Even if the wishful thinking triumphs and the husk of Bannon is gone, there are still serious RWNJ points of view remaining.
There will be Michael Anton (Flight 93 Election), Sebastian Gorka (actual Nazi), and Stephen Miller, spawn of David Horowitz and the reactionaries at Duke.
How perfect to have Miller work with Ivanka to craft that women’s messaging.
According to a report from Politico, balding 31-year-old extremist and senior advisor to the president Stephen Miller is on the up and up in the White House, having “made sure his colleagues know he’s not on Bannon’s team.”
Unnamed sources told Politico that Miller is working with Ivanka Trump on family leave, child care, and women’s issues, perhaps because there weren’t any other actual women available to help her give wealthy parents a leg up.
Miller has a pretty long history of being a sexist, bigoted asshole for someone who was born fairly recently. The Huffington Post references an essay he wrote in college called “Sorry Feminists”—great title—which argued that the pay gap is actually our fault because, among other things, women choose “lower-paying professions” and have the gall to give birth to children.
Miller grew up in a liberal Jewish family in Santa Monica, which was apparently a terrible trial for him; he once ran for student government in high school and was booed off the stage after advocating that people not pick up their trash “when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.”
- “What feminists don't realize is that bosses simply want to run a successful business. They will reward and promote whichever employees are doing the best job. If John sells more than Jill, he gets promoted; if Jill sells more than John, she gets promoted. That is the simple beauty of the free market.” (“Sorry Feminists,” Nov. 22, 2005)
- “It's vital to keep in mind what it would actually mean for women if we were to close the pay gap. For many, it would mean giving up a noble career in social working or putting in 50- and 60-hour work weeks and not being able to spend time with the family. It would mean trading in jobs like housekeeping for night shifts doing road repairs; it would mean giving up the joy of being home during your child's first years of life.” (Ibid)
- “It's not chauvinism. It's chivalry.” (Ibid) www.slate.com/…
The term postfeminism (alternatively rendered as post-feminism) is used to describe reactions against contradictions and absences in feminism, especially second-wave feminism and third-wave feminism. The term postfeminism is sometimes confused with "4th wave-feminism", and "women of color feminism" (e.g. hooks, 1996; Spivak, 1999). However, by definition feminism strives for gender equality, whereas postfeminism must in some way move past or "transcend" the absolute need for gender equality – something which neither theorists' definition does.[1]
To understand Bannon, they say, you need to comb through a lengthy, rambling speech he delivered via Skype to a 2014 conference convened at — of all places — the Vatican.
The address is dense, and reads like a hyperspeed romp though Bannon’s complex and borderline apocalyptic view of history, western society, and religion. It’s revealing on its own — but the broader context behind the speech, delivered to a deeply religious audience, also provides crucial insight into the man many believe is behind some of the Trump administration’s most volatile concoctions.
Bannon, after all, is rumored to be the architect of the twice-stalled Muslim ban, the rapid uptick in deportations, and the president’s frequent use of rhetoric steeped in Christian nationalism — aspects of which are echoed in the 2014 speech.
By most accounts, the cooling of Trump’s ardor for Bannon dates back to the start of the administration.
Substantively, Bannon received some blame for the controversial travel ban that sparked street protests and remains bogged down in the courts.
Stylistically, Trump was said to be unimpressed by the strategist’s high profile, which included a February appearance on the cover of Time magazine and a skit on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” in which Bannon was portrayed as a Grim Reaper figure and the real power in the Oval Office.
“Any time you have staff members on the cover of Time magazine, that’s a problem,” John Feehery, a Trump-supporting GOP strategist and longtime Capitol Hill aide, told the Hill at that time. Feehery also writes a regular column for The Hill.