Conjecture: Bannon's job has been to be the "strawman", representing the "over-the-top" so-called "alt-right", that Trump would eventually DESTROY (sacrifice) to "neutralize" both Bannon's followers and Bannon's "driven mad by Bannon's followers" hysterical opponents.
Bannon has been used (certainly BY himself) to make both his "followers" and his "opponents" hyperextend their "positions" (professed intentions) such that EVENTUALLY both of them could be discredited and "disposed of" as credible opponents to "the NEUTRAL (?) Populist in Charge" (Trump).
(( The main targets are the Pro-Democrat Media and the Racist Separatists/Supremacists [of any race/polity], and their associated politicians. ))
The "alt-right" (hysterical branch) is crawling toward irrelevancy.
The "hysterical left" is doing the same.
Soon-ish (but hopefully not too soon) the "youth" (American and much of the West) will fall in line behind "the neutral populist", as they come to consider both the "hard left" and the "hard right" to be "silly", and see that "prosperity and highly limited immigration" simply get them what they want ("a good and hopeful normal life").
(( Even OPRAH could be "persuaded" to be this "neutral populist", should she be elected. But a true fascist [Obama/Hilary/Saunders type] US President would create a civil war that would utterly weaken the West and we'd likely simply hand over the West's resources in exchange for a "so-called peace" that would actually be a creeping takeover of the planet by China. ))
As the West gears up militarily (military build-up is integral to prosperity), life will improve immensely, and the "smell of war" will recede (seemingly), though the reasons FOR war will build.
The beginning of the end of peace will occur when arrogance sets in in the "youth" that their "God given RIGHT" to the "Good Life" that the last few years (months?) had promised them begins to seem threatened by the "throttling of resources" by the "opponent".
The opponent is China, to the West,.. and the West to China.
That "Frustration of the Promise" will finally fully turn the "youth" (on both sides), which will haul the world into WWIII.
Bannon's (and the real "architects" trying to ameliorate the inevitable catastrophe) scheme is to "play for time", and attempt to create as "slow and orderly" a transition into a world war as possible. The theory being that some "miracle" will occur between here and there that will make the war "unnecessary",.. somehow.
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