Worth recalling Bannon's comments during his "hot mic" (not really) discussion with the left wing reporter for American Prospect. He referred to the white supremacists at Charlottesville in those exact terms.
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I asked Bannon about the connection between his program of economic nationalism and the ugly white nationalism epitomized by the racist violence in Charlottesville and Trump’s reluctance to condemn it. Bannon, after all, was the architect of the strategy of using Breitbart to heat up white nationalism and then rely on the radical right as Trump’s base.
He dismissed the far right as irrelevant and sidestepped his own role in cultivating it: “Ethno-nationalism—it's losers. It's a fringe element.I think the media plays it up too much, and we gotta help crush it, you know, uh, help crush it more.”
“These guys are a collection of clowns,” he added.
This wasn't Bannon's come to Jesus moment. He wasn't disavowing white supremacy. He was merely expressing distaste for this particular form of it, which he sees as a political liability. Put those same protesters in dress shirts (several at the same time, why not) and get them writing articles about how urban crime plays into the hands of the globalist media, and now you're speaking his language. He won't call you a loser then.