Steve Bannon vowed on Monday to denaturalize Zohran Mamdani, just a day before the democratic socialist is likely to win his race to become mayor of New York City. Bannon, a former Trump White House advisor and prominent ally, made the comment while blasting critics of rising anti-semitism in the U.S. for not doing enough to combat it, calling Fox News host Mark Levin “nothing but hot air.”
“This is not a debating society. We’re not in some salon on the Upper East Side over some tea and martinis. ‘Oh, well, you know,’” Bannon began, mocking what he sees as pearl-clutching over Tucker Carlson’s highly controversial interview with white nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes.
“That’s what the National Review, that’s where all these guys—RJC (Republican Jewish Coalition) out there this weekend—condemning everybody. Just like, remember, they’re the biggest Never Trump group out there. They had [Ron] DeSantis. They were all set up. The whole DeSantis thing is their operation,” Bannon continued, adding:
So please spare me. Please spare me what you’re going to do, okay? Please spare me your definition of what MAGA is, okay? We’ve been in the trenches with MAGA from the beginning, when you guys hated Trump initially. You hate Trump all the time, except when he’s doing something for you.
Mark Levin—he does nothing but hot air. Mark Levin, instead of running your mouth, what are you doing in New York City? I’ll tell you what we’re doing: we’re going to denaturalize Mamdani, which I told people back then they had to do, right after Mamdani won the primary, which they didn’t think he was going to win.
I told them he was going to win. So now what are they doing at the end? “Oh, we’re going to move to Miami. We’re going to move the financial capital of the world. We’re just going to give up on New York.” That’s going to work out fine for the United States of America. Same way they’re trying to quit down in Texas. It’s easy to surrender. It’s easier to surrender; it’s hard to fight. You’re going to get called everything in the book. You’re going to be othered. Who cares?
History shows when we stand and fight, we win. If we don’t quit, we win. Our movement is anti-fragile. We have resilience. We can take a punch and then punch back harder. Never forget the lessons: divine providence allowed this election to be stolen for a purpose. Not just ’16 was providential—’20 was providential. We needed to go into the wilderness. We needed to regroup. We needed to rethink our line of attack. And look at the glorious revolution we’ve had in the first 250 days. It hasn’t been perfect, but you know what? It’s pretty damn good.
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