MAGA pontificator Steve Bannon claimed that it's time to ignore claims of "authoritarianism" and start locking up government officials who are stoking "civil unrest" in the United States, according to an article in The Spectator.
Bannon told editor Freddy Gray that the left was "calling for [unrest] nationwide," and that "we’re in for another of summer of riots."
“They just kicked it off,” Bannon said of the unrest in Los Angeles.
“We need to start arresting government officials, including the Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, who’s stirring this pot up," Bannon said, even if it means suspending habeas corpus.
“If Gavin Newsom is saying, ‘Hey, come on, arrest me.’ Hey, well, if he gets in the way of federal officials trying to sort this mess out, he should be arrested,” Bannon said.
Gray wrote, "Bannon is on something of a roll at the moment, having just, in his words 'taken out' Elon Musk from the Trump administration."
Bannon has long been at odds with Musk, whom he calls a "dangerous narcissist” and an "illegal alien" who's controlled by the Chinese Communist Party and needs to be deported back to South Africa.
Further, Bannon claimed that the Trump administration will be using "its legal powers to bust up the monopolistic power of Big Tech."
“We’re going to break up Facebook," Bannon said. "We’re going to break up Google. We’re going to break up Amazon. We’re going to break… I think hopefully we get to eventually break up Walmart. You’ve got too much concentration of private power. It’s obvious it’s anti-populist. It’s anti-economic nationalist."
Bannon continued, "The tech bros at their core are soft. It’s like the elites in England. It’s like the elites know England went from a country that ran the world. You know why? Because it generated people that had character values and were tough. You’re not tough anymore. You’re a bunch of f------ p------. Just like the tech bros. They lived a soft life. They’ve never had to make hard decisions. They’ve never had any kind of real challenges in their life, hard challenges. And that’s where they’re soft. And the soft will never beat the hard.”
Read The Spectator article here.