Bannon the European: He’s opening the populist fort in Brussels

Bannon the European: He’s opening the populist fort in Brussels

The former Trump strategist arrives in Europe with "The Movement". Objective: an alliance between
right-wing leaders, from Salvini to Orban in view of the 2019 elections

NEW YORK. The invasion of Europe has begun. Steve Bannon, 65, the American far-right guru who
was Donald Trump’s right-hand man in the White House — but let go last summer following the racist
violence in Charlottesville — is preparing to march on Brussels. Launching, he told the Daily Beast
himself, a new non-profit foundation called The Movement, (Il Movimento), right in the heart of Europe
and its institutions. Through which he hopes to coordinate the populist right in view of the European
elections which will be held in spring 2019.

Objective: to compete with George Soros, the American billionaire of Hungarian origin, benefactor of
the Democratic party, who since 1984 with his Open Society has spent at least $32 billion in support of
NGOs dealing with human rights. And for this he became the bogeyman of the populist right, accused of
plots of all kinds: including that of wanting to replace Italians with immigrants in order to have labour at
low cost. A mantra repeated in the past on Twitter also by the current Minister of the Interior Matteo
Salvini.

The ambition of Steve Bannon, former director of the alt-right American site Breitbart — which in the
European campaign preceded him since the platform had already opened bureaux in London and Rome
— is therefore to become the coordinator of the one great “populist international” of which he has long
since been dreaming.

Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter

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