The Trump Era After Bannon
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 11 January 2018
⏱️ 17 minutes
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This week, Steve Bannon was ousted from his position as Executive Chairman of Breitbart News, the self-described "platform for the alt-right." Andrew Marantz joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the rise of the alt-right movement, and what Steve Bannon's downfall means for Trump and nationalist economic populism.
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| 0:49.0 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. It's Thursday, |
| 0:56.1 | January 11th. I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of The New Yorker. This week, Steve Bannon was |
| 1:02.2 | forced to resign as executive chairman of Breitbart News. He'd left his job under pressure as the |
| 1:08.4 | White House chief strategist in August, but continued to serve |
| 1:12.2 | as the primary spokesman for the extreme rights war on the Republican political establishment. |
| 1:18.2 | Here's Bannon on the stump in Alabama for Roy Moore. |
| 1:22.1 | The Republican establishment, and with the Democratic establishment, they think America's in decline, right? |
| 1:30.3 | And they're comfortable managing that decline. |
| 1:34.3 | It is the working men and women in Ohio, in Wisconsin, in Michigan, in Pennsylvania, |
| 1:43.3 | and yes, right here in Alabama, that rejected that. |
| 1:50.1 | Make America great again. |
| 1:56.5 | Andrew Morance joins me to discuss the rise of the alt-right and what Bannon's downfall |
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