Will Alabama Voters Be Next to Reject 'Trumpism'?
Steve Bannon’s attempted fascist putsch in Virginia and New Jersey has failed.
Is Alabama next? Can the Democrats keep it from being stolen?
Tuesday’s gubernatorial elections in the Garden State and the state “for lovers” were soundly won by moderate Democrats. The elections were widely featured in the corporate media as referendums on Donald Trump.
But the knife cut much deeper. Steve Bannon, the nation’s leading fascist activist-theoretician, offered to campaign for
Gillespie, branding him a “culture warrior” in the course of the race. Although Gillespie refused Bannon’s direct aid in the campaign, Bannon praised Gillespie’s adoption of far-right Trumpist ideology and his brutally racist,
anti-immigrant ads that reflect Bannon’s extreme right-wing ideology.
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Bannon went so far as to say that Gillespie’s swing to the hard right was what made his race competitive. “I do believe
Gillespie’s going to pull this thing out,” Bannon said Sunday, two days before the vote. “The lesson of Gillespie is
Trumpism without Trump. … We now have forced the establishment to embrace our platform.”
But once Gillespie lost, both Trump and Bannon attacked him for not fully embracing their positions or their presence. Trump was the first sitting president to not campaign in a
Virginia governor’s race since Richard Nixon during Watergate. As the defeat became clear, Trump tweeted from Asia that
Gillespie did not represent him.
With immigration as a pretext, Virginia and New Jersey voters were showered with visual and textual images portraying blacks and immigrants in race-baiting, fear-mongering terms.
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