ANAHEIM — Steve Bannon, President Trump’s former chief strategist, expanded his “season of war against a GOP establishment” Friday night by ripping party leaders and adding a new economic enemy — “the lords of Silicon Valley.”
In a stream-of-consciousness, 41-minute speech before 500 people at the California Republican Party convention, Bannon, who has returned to his post as chairman of Breitbart News, lumped the valley in with the “lobbyists, consultants, and corporatists and globalist elites” as part of the political establishment ruining the country.
In Bannon’s economic nationalist view, the high-paid people in Silicon Valley “think they get a special deal” by getting “all the benefits of a free society” while leaving it to other Americans to defend those values by sending their children to the miliary. America’s industrial heartland was gutted, Bannon said, because China “gamed” international trade deals that helped “Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Hollywood and Washington, D.C.” Meanwhile, the people who “are working two jobs are the ones who got screwed.” http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Steve-Bannon-rips-the-lords-of-Silicon-12295497.php
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