Yeah, the title was not particularly easy for me to type. Anyway, in trying to gain a better personal understanding of the perceptions and opinions of others (yes, many of us do that pretty regularly), I'm watching a 2.5 hour interview with Steve Bannon, recorded in 2019.
Early on (VERY early on), he makes two very important points:
1. I've seen MANY people here, usually of one particular political persuasion, contend that the 2008 Meltdown was not that big a deal. Bannon, formerly of Goldman Sachs, does a good, quick, off-the-cuff job of describing how and why we literally came hours from total economic global catastrophe. Businesses around the country were about to run out of cash. Very few people know this story: At 6:42-9:52
2. Then, the next thing he talks about populism and its danger (although I doubt he meant to put it quite in this way): at 10:26, he says "every financial crisis, I think, in at least modern history, is always followed by some kind of populism.
Now, sometime that devolves into fascism..."
This is out of Bannon's own mouth. I'm not making a prediction, I'm just pointing out that we need to proceed with care and thought and intelligence, and not a caveman, break-it-all approach. And that's my concern with this mess. That's one of my primary worries about Trumpism.
Link:
Steve Bannon Interview
