O, Lord of Hatred – after Listening to Steven K. Bannon’s “War Room[s]”

“This is how fascism comes to America. Not with jackboots and salutes,” but “with a television huckster.”

 

1

O Lord of the Fascist underbelly

the morning after the storm cleared all

the leaves from the trees and a million

starving refugees were washed down

the gutters into a soulless sea.

 

O, Lord of the men & women in

the Business of Banks and Billionaires

with their poisoned currency.

 

O Lord of Corruption,

this lord of Chaos and Deceit

now “weaponised”…

 

Oh, listen, listen carefully,

because 60 million Mercenary Millionaires

fear the Scourge of Democracy

(confronting the Terror of their Technology)

…but not the screams of dying children

in all the Gaza’s of our worst nightmares.

 

2

O Lord, in a Time devoid of Kindness

this Crooked Time of Cronies and

countless complaints (half-crazed,

confused and incoherent)

where there is no compassion for the suffering

of the Rich plagued

with “communist” infiltrators and

the decency of dissidents

 

…all: “scum” “elites” “not worried about what happens to the American people” “radical left” “piranhas” and “phony” with their “phony degrees” all “sucker(s)” “radicals” “neo-Marxists” “criminals” “criminals we’ve driven out” “gutless cowards” “a bunch of pansies” “gangsters”…

 

all “anathema to the Republican establishment”, these “foreign billionaires” a “festering sore”…

 

Behold then, Il Duce,

these “lazy” “lying scumbags”

these “fucking lying scumbags”

even “a bunch of lying fucking scumbags”! (Steven K. Bannon)

 

3

O, Lord of all Lies,

listen to this raucous orchestra

with its Conductor who struts and

swaggers without uniform

but its cruel instruments sharpened

for Charlottesville or El-Paso or

some other grim graveyard of the Soul.

 

O Lord of Hate – this prayer now

purge purge purge

rising like a stench from these

privileged children

who can never understand why there

are so many Migrants, Muslims, Jews, Hispanics,

Black, Brown, Yellow and Red

 

…purge purge purge, they shriek!

 

“going after the law firms” “going after the mechanics” “lance the boil”  “flood the zone” “invade” “overwhelm the system” “draw all the fire” “tear apart” “radically take down” “brick by brick” “hit with motive force” “hit it and overwhelm the system” “punch” “break them all” “bitch slap”… “purge” …

 

“you have to break them”… (Steven K. Bannon)

 

…purge purge purge.

 

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O Lord of the Fascist underbelly

Lord of Louts, of Banks and Billionaires:

 

“it’s now a New Day and watch how

this storm will clear all the leaves from the trees

and all the poor people from the streets…

 

“O Lord of Hate, with your help,

watch them all being washed down

these genocidal gutters

into a soulless sea”.

 

séamas carraher

26 November – 9 December, 2025

https://seamascarraher.blogspot.com/

#MakeAntiFascismGreatAgain

 

Image

“Steve Bannon speaking with attendees at the Restoring National Confidence Summit at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, Nevada.

30 January 2024, 16:10”

Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

 

Quote

“This is how fascism comes to America. Not with jackboots and salutes,” but “with a television huckster.” Robert Kagan – Washington Post

quoted in Elisabeth Zerofsky, Is It Fascism? A Leading Historian Changes His Mind – New York Times Magazine, October 2024

 

NOTE

Quotes (Phrases) are those used by Steven K. Bannon, from the interview conducted by Mike Wiser for FRONTLINE on April 3, 2025.

“Bannon is a political strategist and the host of the podcast War Room. He served as an adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, and later as chief White House strategist during Trump’s first term”.

Trump’s Power & the Rule of Law: Steve Bannon (interview) | FRONTLINE – PBS, July, 2025

 

Bannon:     “This is why the MAGA movement detests RINOs, detests country-club Republicans. We hate them more than we hate radical Democrats. When we’ve talked to people here, and they see the letters coming off of something like USAID, symbolically, in this town, there’s a fear of who is next, what is next.

They should understand it’s potentially all next.” [39:46-40:04]

Bannon: “Here’s what we know: If you take power and exert it, this system’s not so tough. You know why? They’re all gutless cowards. They’ve all hid behind the system for decades and decades and decades.

So the university administrators, they’re not that tough. The big law firms, they’re not that tough.

The media? Look who’s cratered. How many times—look how they’re settling with Trump. They’re not tough.

We’re resilient, we’re anti-fragile, and we’re tough. You can put us in fucking prison. You can take Trump up there and put him on trial every day.

The people around Trump are battle-hardened, OK? You’re not going to scare us, and we’re not going to stop, and what we know is you guys are a bunch of pansies.

You will crater. PBS is going to crater. …You know why? You’re not tough. You don’t believe actually at your core in what you’re trying to do, and you’ll fold, like the law firms, like the universities, like the media, like all of these institutions. You will fold, because we’re relentless, and we’re not going to stop…” [1:01:08]

 

Financial Times (FT Interview – May, 2025)

Steve Bannon: ‘President Trump will serve a third term’ | FT

“Steve Bannon, architect of US president Donald Trump’s America First movement… The populist nationalist shared his views on everything from AI and alleging the election of American pope Leo XIV was ‘rigged’ to declaring the US would be unable to continue financing its deficits without tax rises for wealthy Americans and big cuts to the ‘deep state’. Condemning foreign strongmen, he predicted Trump would serve a third term with the help of constitutional ‘workarounds’. Bannon also denied that not enough American citizens had the skills or desire to do the jobs of immigrant workers championed by Elon Musk, Trump’s billionaire backer and government efficiency tsar who was now ‘gone…[from DC while] I’m still here’.”

Financial Times – May, 2025

 

Alternative Quotes – Wilhelm Reich  (1945)

“The fascist is the drill sergeant in the colossal army of our deeply sick, highly industrialized civilization…

“Fascism is not a political party but a specific concept of life and attitude toward man, love, and work.”

Wilhelm Reich – A Response [1945]

“What are you doing in a practical way to feed the nation, without murdering other nations? What are you doing as a physician to combat chronic diseases, what as an educator to intensify the child’s joy of living, what as an economist to erase poverty, what as a social worker to alleviate the weariness of mothers having too many children, what as an architect to promote hygienic conditions in living quarters? Let’s have no more of your chatter. Give us a straightforward, concrete answer or shut up!..

“It follows from this that international fascism will never be overcome by political maneuver. It will fall victim to the natural organization of work, love, and knowledge on an international scale.”

(“The Mass Psychology of Fascism” – [PDF] from the 1945 Reissued Preface)

 

FOR THE PRESENT?

“Fascism in power is a compound, a powerful amalgam of different but marriageable conservative, national-socialist and radical Right ingredients, bonded together by common enemies and common passions for a regenerated, energized, and purified nation at whatever cost to free institutions and the rule of law. The precise proportions of the mixture are the result of processes: choices, alliances, compromises, rivalries. Fascism in action looks much more like a network of relationships than a fixed essence.”

Excerpt From: Robert Paxton –“What is Fascism” (PDF)

And

“In a column that appeared online on Jan. 11, 2021, Paxton wrote that the invasion of the Capitol “removes my objection to the fascist label.”

Trump’s “open encouragement of civic violence to overturn an election crosses a red line,” he went on. “The label now seems not just acceptable but necessary.”

Robert Paxton: “It’s the real thing. It really is.”(in his 2021 Newsweek column)

Is It Fascism? A Leading Historian Changes His Mind.

“Robert Paxton thought the label was overused. But now he’s alarmed by what he sees in global politics — including Trumpism.” Elisabeth Zerofsky – October, 2024

 

Documentary Films

“The Brink” –  Wikipedia – “The Brink” (2019) – Alison Klayman )

“I’m sorry to report that The Brink, in which director Alison Klayman accompanies Steve Bannon around the country and the world as he promotes his far-right, anti-globalism agenda, is the year’s most urgent documentary — the one you need to see this week, not this year.”

Vulture (Review) – March, 2019

American Dharma – Wikipedia – “American Dharma” – Errol Morris

“American Dharma offers a fascinating glimpse of a political influencer’s public persona – and a frustrating missed opportunity to interrogate his actions and stated beliefs.”

 

REFERENCES – TEXT

 

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O, Lord of the Men & Women in

the Business of Banks and Billionaires

with their poisoned currency,

See How the Rich Took Over the Economy

“From Bretton Woods to Volcker, Thatcher, Reagan, the IMF, and the rise of financialisation, this is the story of how the modern economy was rebuilt for the super rich and what it means for the rest of us.”

Anna Bocca – November, 2024

 

Oh, listen, listen carefully, 

because 60 million greedy Millionaires

“Millionaires by Country” – World Population Review

 

…but not the screams of dying children

in all the Gaza’s of our worst nightmares.

 “GAZA, 6 September 2025 – At least one Palestinian child has been killed every hour on average by Israeli forces in Gaza over nearly 23 months of war, with the number of children killed now surpassing 20,000,  Save the Children said. “

 

2

All selected “Quotes” are taken from the PBS interview in April 2025 (Uploaded in July)

Trump’s Power & the Rule of Law: Steve Bannon (interview) | FRONTLINE PBS – July, 2025

 

3

Lord of Lies

Listen to Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff’s extended 60 Minutes interview:

“So, you…have both done a lot of business with the Gulf States, billions

and billions of dollars worth of business, and you’ve done some of the business while this negotiation has gone on… And that has raised some issues of conflict. I mean, some blurring of a line between, you know, what you’re doing in terms of foreign policy and benefiting financially from what’s going on.” [5:36 – 6:00] Lesley Stahl (Interviewer) to Witkoff & Kushner 60 Minutes – Extended Interview – 20, October, 2025

or

…the 2019 book – “Kushner, Inc.” by the English-American journalist Vicky Ward: “The intersection of Money, Power and Culture” Interview with Ward, April 2019

 

 

Charlottesville or El-Paso

“The Unite the Right rally was a white supremacist rally that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, from August 11 to 12, 2017… Marchers included members of the alt-right, neo-Confederates, neo-fascists, white nationalists, neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and far-right militias.”

Heather Heyer, a counter-protester was murdered during the protests

Wikipedia. – Unite the Right rally

 

2019 El Paso Walmart shooting

“On August 3, 2019, a mass shooting occurred at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, United States. The gunman, 21-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius, shot 45 people, killing 23… and injuring 22 others… The shooting has been described as the deadliest attack on Latinos in modern American history.

“…the author [‘s Manifesto] … bemoans grievances such as environmental degradation, “cultural and ethnic replacement”, and a “Hispanic invasion”.

Wikipedia – El Paso Walmart Shooting and Manifesto

 

Purge

Steve Bannon Calls for His Enemies to Be ‘Purged’

“Former White House strategist Steve Bannon has called on people who are critical of Christian nationalism to be “purged” from the U.S.”

Newsweek – December, 2023

 

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“O Lord of Hate, with your help,

watch them all being washed down

these genocidal gutters into a

soulless sea”.

 

Bannon: “Trump is a vehicle…of Divine Providence…

Clip – NowThis Impact – November, 2025

 

“Evangelicals are taught that all morality comes from God and therefore true goodness can only be spread by obeying God, even if it harms people around us,” Ajoy said. “This isn’t necessarily a bad thing if pleasing God manifests by following the teachings of Jesus ― loving our neighbors, loving our enemies, promoting peace and taking care of the poor, the widow, the immigrant and standing up for the marginalized. It becomes dangerous when Christians weaponize this vertical morality for power, which is exactly what we’re seeing with the Christian nationalism in the Trump administration.”

Huffington Post – October, 25, 2025

Why evangelicals influence US foreign policy in the Middle East | EP1 | Witness Documentary

“They call for the “final battle” which they believe will trigger the second coming of Christ. Central to their apocalyptic prophecy is Israel. It is with their blessing that the Trump administration controversially recognises Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moves the US embassy there in 2018.”

Al Jazeera – March 2024

 

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