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ck4829

(35,096 posts)
Wed Aug 23, 2017, 09:54 PM Aug 2017

I found a real live alt-left person

President Donald Trump on Monday (May 1) dismissed widespread reports that his administration is riven by discord, saying he is sticking by his polarizing chief strategist, Steve Bannon, calling him a “very decent guy” who is getting a “bad rap.”

Trump even revealed his own term for Bannon’s ideology: "alt-left," a play on Bannon’s ties to the nationalist conservative movement sometimes called the alt-right.

Why alt-left? “Bannon’s more of a libertarian than anything else, if you want to know the truth,” Trump said Monday during an interview with Bloomberg News in the Oval Office.

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He said Bannon and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus both would likely still be in their same roles several months from now, along with two other figures in his administration who have drawn withering fire: counselor Kellyanne Conway and press secretary Sean Spicer. (All except Conway... Nope.)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-01/-alt-left-strategist-bannon-isn-t-going-anywhere-trump-says

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I found a real live alt-left person (Original Post) ck4829 Aug 2017 OP
Alt--sure, Left? As if. shanny Aug 2017 #1
 

shanny

(6,709 posts)
1. Alt--sure, Left? As if.
Wed Aug 23, 2017, 10:02 PM
Aug 2017

"Libertarian" isn't a "left" position and Donald Fucking Trump isn't a reliable source on this, or in fact anything.

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