Steve Bannon Taught Civics in Prison, and Now Schools the Reporters

What is anarcho-tyranny? Put simply, it means “Anarchy for me, tyranny for thee.” It describes a two-tiered justice system which operates to intimidate, punish, and finally suppress political opposition. You could find examples of it all through our fallen history, from the legal codes of ancient Rome that subjected slaves to torture to the Jim Crow laws in post-war America — where black men who looked crookedly at white women could face imprisonment or lynching.

But the most infamous example of anarcho-tyranny as a means of consolidating power can be found in Weimar Germany. The Nazis employed anarcho-tyranny to extend their control of the German street, such that the conservative government felt there was no choice but to invite Hitler to join them. Nazi thugs would brawl with Catholics, social democrats, Communists, and other enemies — and then when all got arrested, pro-Nazi judges would set the Nazis free, while imprisoning their victims for the crime of defending themselves.

The left in today’s America is following not the Communist playbook (which often fails) but the Nazi one.

See the George Floyd rioters who walked free while peaceful January 6 protestors still rot in prison, and the settlement our government paid Peter Strozk for subverting it in the lawless false impeachments of Donald Trump. But we don’t need to look back years for prime examples. We saw two Trump supporters, Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon, sent to federal prison for defying the illegitimate subpoenas of the lawlessly constituted January 6 Committee.

Navarro emerged just in time to give a triumphant address to the Republican National Convention. Steve Bannon was set free yesterday.

Straight from Prison to Bully Pulpit

At the press conference he held in New York City, Bannon (whom I proudly call a friend) showed us why he’s the most important political operative in America — bar none. Looking somehow better after a prison stint than he did before he went in, Bannon faced cameras and a mostly hostile press. And he gave a master class in media, deftly handling loaded, hostile questions from white-knuckled reporters who clearly wished to bodyslam him back into a cell. He interrupted their filibustering, trashed their false presuppositions, and kept on his message with a twinkle in his eye.

And that message was important, not just to the Trump campaign but to our country. As an aside, Bannon at one point thanked the prison officials in Danbury, Connecticut for letting him teach civics to fellow prisoners. And Bannon’s whole appearance was in fact a civics lesson — one we all sorely need, which sadly went over the heads of the MSM apparatchiks who reluctantly had to report on his release.

Bannon’s central message was a crucial one in the Civic Nationalism that has animated Trump’s movement all along. He laid out how our system is rigged to favor callous (and mostly white) elites, and penalize the poor. Bannon explained how the open-borders policies of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were part of a conscious strategy to limit inflation by pushing down the wages “not of financial executives or lawyers, but of the poorest, least skilled Americans.” He cited Federal Reserve statements which openly admitted this.

And ordinary Americans in the working and middle class are catching on, he warned. He spoke of the black and Latino men he met in prison who are serving long sentences for drug possession, who should have been set free thanks to “Donald Trump’s prison reform.” But the Department of Justice has intentionally defied the law Trump passed and signed (the First Step Act), because actually obeying it would have benefited Trump. Bannon referred to Harris as the “Queen of Mass Incarceration,” echoing Tulsi Gabbard’s devastating debate take-down that drove Harris out of the Democratic primaries in 2020. (If you haven’t seen it, please watch and share this powerful political ad damning Harris as a hard-hearted, power-hungry inquisitor who took glee in imprisoning the poor parents of truant children.)

The Politics of Money

Bannon traced the growing support of black and Latino male voters for Donald Trump to this kind of flippant, dictatorial behavior by the Democrats, and equally to the economic chaos that party has inflicted on our country. Those voters, Bannon said, remembered how blue-collar wages rose faster than white-collar wages, unemployment was minimal, and inflation wasn’t an issue — while Trump was in office. Those voters compare how they were doing four years ago to how their lives are going now. That bleak contrast, he said, made Kamala Harris’s mindless embrace of “the politics of joy” a bitter joke to millions.

Bannon predicted confidently that America is “going beyond the politics of race, the politics of gender,” and entering a new, dramatic era: “the politics of money.” In it, alternative media such as his War Room podcasts, Elon Musk’s new unchained X, The Stream, and other uncensored venues will expose how our elites rig the justice system, regulations, immigration policy, and other key aspects of government to benefit themselves — and fleece the man on the street. That’s if we can stop Kamala Harris and her plans to pack the Supreme Court while gutting both the First and Second amendments.

That kind of populist nationalism embraces people of every race, both sexes, all religions, and every lifestyle except one: the cozy existence of powerful parasites, who feel so threatened by Donald Trump that they flooded the Harris campaign with a record $1 billion, and who misuse their power to imprison dissenters like Bannon himself.

Bannon called for Trump supporters to strain every sinew to get out the vote, and called on Trump himself to fully inform voters in real time of the massive efforts by the left to hijack this election — which he noted now include threats to use Congress to defy the Supreme Court, and refuse to certify even an unambiguous Trump victory, on the lame pretext that Trump is an “insurrectionist.”

Bannon explained in detail how the chaotic incompetence of the Biden-Harris administration and its naked capture by the powerful leaves the left with only the darkest options: to demonize half of America for daring to complain, and to use their control of election offices and courts to simply steal the election — again. But he also promised that they will fail if we all do our part.

A big part of that is prayer. And tonight, I’ll be offering prayers of gratitude that Bannon is now back out here fighting.

Jason Jones is a senior contributor to The Stream. He is a film producer, activist, and human rights worker. He is also the author of three books, the latest of which is The Great Campaign Against the Great Reset.