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Kuttner also asked Bannon about the ugly white nationalism epitomized by the racist violence in Charlottesville and Trumps reluctance to condemn it. Heather Heyer, a civil rights activist, was killed when a man alleged to be a white nationalist drove a car into a crowd of counter protesters on Saturday.
Bannon dismissed the far right as irrelevant, Kuttner wrote, quoting the Trump aide as saying: Ethno-nationalism its losers. Its 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.
Regarding the Democrats, Bannon said: The longer they talk about identity politics, I got em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.
Kuttner wrote that he had never spoken to Bannon before and that the question of whether the call was on or off the record never came up.
