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The Bulwark Podcast

Jennifer Senior: Steve Bannon Is an Asymmetric Threat

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.611.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Steve Bannon is a card-carrying member of the coastal elite, but he's trying to light a bonfire under American democracy. An intelligent, well-read man in the same category as Tucker Carlson, Bannon's genius is in polarizing people. The Atlantic's Jennifer Senior joined Charlie Sykes in this encore episode from June. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:08.4

Welcome to the Bullwark Podcast. I'm Charlie Sykes.

0:10.9

Back in June, I had a great discussion with the Atlantic's

0:14.3

Jennifer Senior, who had just profiled Steve Bannon.

0:17.7

She hung out with him.

0:18.9

He texted her at a gazillion times.

0:20.6

He made political predictions that were totally wrong,

0:23.0

and he got mad when she called his show A Podcast.

0:26.2

This is one of the funniest ways to talk about one of the most

0:28.6

infuriating and loads of people in America.

0:32.2

Just listen to the show, and you'll see why we included

0:34.4

this episode on our Best of 2022 list.

0:38.6

In case you have not seen it, Jennifer Senior's piece

0:42.6

on Steve Bannon American Ratsputin online, you can read it,

0:47.0

is an absolute must-read.

0:50.2

Steve Bannon's still scheming.

0:51.9

He is still a threat to democracy.

0:54.0

So first of all, I had to introduce our guest,

0:56.2

Jennifer Senior, who is a staff writer at the Atlantic.

0:59.4

And the winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

1:04.1

So welcome to the podcast, and wow, congratulations on that.

1:08.1

Thank you very much.

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