mere racial populism is nothing but "hell yeah politics" writ loud, "false consciousness" to paraphrase Marx. And Steve Bannon is a racial populist, he has a long list of very real problems he wishes to address, his solution though, will resolve exactly nothing...save in siring a society dominated by an entirely artificial strata of ehnic castes with caucasians seemingly on top.
For however long said arrangement lasts that...
Real populism is only effective as a means of redressing social & economic inequalities when it is practice a rough and ready sort of diversity built on "colorblind, genderblind, strength in numbers."
The farm crisis of the late 19th century in the USA was vastly exacerbated by the inability of western and southern factions of the farmer's alliance to reconcile themselves over potential inclusion of southern blacks in the notional reform driven "People's Party". And that schism in turn held back much needed farm reform for a good fifty years until the advent of the New Deal when sheer national economic calamity started driving the process.
Again "strength in numbers vertically and horizontally" is pretty much the only thing that can force the interests into negotiating, without all you have is a lot of white power grievance politics...which is what I think Bannon is really all about regardless of his Harvard Sheepskin and Admiration for Plutarch....
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