Steve Bannon, former advisor to Donald Trump and driving force behind the far-right global alliance The Movement, may seem like a figure outside the political spotlight, but he remains a pillar of Trumpism and MAGA. He was also one of the key contacts for the pedophile Epstein when it came to organizing the orgies of atrocities in which powerful people who wanted to participate were welcome. Last October, in an interview on The EconomistBannon issued a stark warning: "There is a plan. Trump will have a third term and will be president in 2028. [...] Trump is a vehicle of divine providence." The American Constitution limits each US president to a maximum of two terms: running for a third term is therefore against the law. But what importance does the law have for a leader who has a direct connection to divine providence? This is what Caesarism is all about, and, to take a recent example, in Spain Franco led a forty-year military dictatorship. by the grace of God.
Now Bannon has come out with another threat. He made it on his podcast, unsurprisingly titled War roomThat is, a war cabinet. He spat at Bannon: "In November we will have ICE surround the polling places. You can whine and cry all you want, but we will never again allow an election to be stolen from us." He is referring to the midterm elections that will take place next November and that Trumpism fears because polls predict a potentially severe electoral defeat.
When he speaks of a "stolen" election, he's referring to the 2020 presidential election, which was won by the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden. It's worth remembering that Trump never acknowledged Biden's victory; on the contrary, he always maintained that the elections had been fraudulent. His response was to instigate, while still president, the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Being re-elected in 2024 allowed him to evade the criminal liability that those actions could have entailed, and one of his first decisions upon returning to the White House was to grant amnesty to all the low points in the history of American democracy. Up to that point, that is, because there have been even lower levels of corruption since then.
For example, the extrajudicial killings of two citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, in broad daylight on a Minneapolis street at the hands of ICE agents. This is an agency whose mission, on paper, is to control illegal immigration, not to monitor election days. If Bannon announces that ICE will "wrap up polling places" in November, it's not to guarantee their safety or transparency, but to intimidate voters, who know they risk being killed for whatever they say or do. Who knows if it will also depend on how they vote. The America that was supposed to be great again has turned out to be a police state where protesting against the leader appointed by divine providence can be punishable by death.
