The latest entrant is the Committee on the Present Danger. Represented by former White House strategist Steve Bannon and Frank Gaffney, head of the Center for Security Policy, this is third resuscitation of a foreign policy interest group that has existed in manifold forms since the advent of the Cold War. They’re not alone. They were joined earlier this week at event on Capitol Hill by other heavy-hitters in Trumpland: Texas Senator Ted Cruz, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and Asia studies bigwig Gordon Chang, to name a few. Brian Kennedy of the Claremont Institute and his own American Strategy Group, is the committee’s titular chairman. “Very much as we had to get organized in the thirties to stop un-American activities…we’re going to go through the same cycle here,” said Gingrich. The Chinese “invest billions in espionage and theft,” implored Sen. Cruz. And Chang sounded the alarm on brain injuries (not officially corroborated by the State Department) suffered by U.S. diplomatic personnel working in Guangzhou.Cruz and Gingrich are not "in Trumpland". They're never-trumpers who opposed Trump totally in order to get him elected. Now that he's openly NYC, they're with him. And not just neocons, lunatics. Spreading the ALREADY DISPROVED "toxic noise" fraud. Here's the key flip:
As Bannon and Gaffney suggest, the encore of efficient authoritarianism is the story of our time, an existential challenge for the West’s way of doing business not seen since the 1930’s.Exactly. The fact that they're defining decent government as "authoritarian" tells you EVERYTHING. That's the standard Sorosian definition. Bannon gained followers by taking the side of decent government. And now he's switched neatly to defending "the West's way of doing business", ie Soros, against decent government. Salvini and LePen detected Bannon's fakeness immediately and rejected him solidly. Most Euro "experts" were fooled, or at least sounded like they were fooled in order to keep the AP game running. Later thought: Actually "Bannon and Gaffney" is the Self-Explanatory Phrase here, the minimal number of words that TELLS YOU EVERYTHING.
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