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Bannon is a populist, and America-first nationalist. Bannon is NOT a free-market reagonomics Republican. Remember, one of his criticisms of Obama was that he didn't bail out the auto-industry enough. This shouldn't be surprising who actually pays attention. There is also a large amount of Obama - Bernie - Trump voters, people need to get rid of simple Left vs Right thinking, there are multiple dimensions to politics.

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The reason it is still red v blue, despite the more nuanced politics, is that in the end, those smaller groups majority, reliably vote for one party.

It is good to see independents growing as a group and the parties shrinking, it's trending towards 50% last I saw

> Bannon is a populist, and America-first nationalist.

In the European political tradition, nationalists and communists differ only in their excuses for murder, everything else is the same. A fact known also as the Horseshoe theory of far-right and far-left merging in shared love for dictatorship.

So, it shouldn't be surprising that Bannon and Bernie have very similar views behind their, seemingly different, populist demagogy.

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