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ergo sum, Good points, you're right on both counts. Many are simply using Trump, and the politicians and the voters who still support him.

Thanks HEAPS for the reminder. A couple for those who could use a prod to some detail on the Mercer/Bannon connect, as i felt i could.

The Oligarch's Alt-Right: The Nazification of America

"Peg -- as I was just pointing out yet another example of Trump's open admiration, and clear yearning/ambition, for the sort of authoritarian strongman status presently held by e.g. Putin and Xi -- and Duterte -- and Erdogan -- and so forth, there having been further examples -- whatever precious little clue he has as to what he's doing beyond relying on rallying/enraging/blowing bubbles up the butts of his alt-reality base, he does know what he wants -- above/dictating the law power, profit/wealth from the corrupt exercise of that power"

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At 6:15 - ...a 2016 quote from Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica: “Today, in the United States we have somewhere close to four or
five thousand data points on every individual …. So we model the personality of every adult across the United States, some 230 million people.”
https://www.mediavillage.com/article/facebook-and-cambridge-analytica-the-story-of-the-year/

You know the association of Nix and Robert Mercer,

How One Family’s Deep Pockets Helped Reshape Donald Trump’s Campaign
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=124653084

and how Mercer and others supper on the tax system.

For the Wealthiest, a Private Tax System That Saves Them Billions
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=119596079

The above, and more - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=144322485

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nlightn, you know who backed Bannon over years. It may not be so certain now.

"fuagf,...thing is about all these great ideas by Bannon or whomever."

BANNON'S "SEASON OF WAR" ON GOP ESTABLISHMENT MAY BACKFIRE WITH FIRST BATTLE

By John Wagner, November 17 at 9:27 PM

Early this month, GOP mega-donor Robert Mercer announced that he was stepping down as co-chief executive of his hedge fund and selling his stake in Breitbart to his daughters.

In doing so, he wrote a letter distancing himself from Bannon in which he expressed concern that he at times had been mischaracterized in the press as “a white supremacist or a member of some other noxious group” and made clear that he would be making his own decisions about candidates to support financially.

A person familiar with Mercer’s thinking said in the past week that he does not plan to be “joined at the hip” with Bannon in his Senate efforts. In some cases, there could be overlap, but in other cases they could part ways, said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak about private conversations.

Less clear are the intentions of Mercer’s middle daughter, Rebekah Mercer, who has largely directed where her family steers its political resources in recent years. Most of that money, however, has come from her father. Neither of the Mercers speak to the news media.

In other cases, Bannon appears to have been rebuffed by major donors. Last week, Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson said through a spokesman that he would not be supporting Bannon’s efforts to remake the Senate and was instead “supporting Mitch McConnell 100 percent.” Bannon had met with Adelson in Washington about a month earlier, though an associate insisted Saturday that he had “never asked him for anything.”
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=136309453&txt2find=Rebekah

There are plenty on the board on the love of the Mercer's for Bannon. Somebody here will have to dig
into the billionaires backing far-right causes in Europe as this one doesn't mention the politics of

The 8 richest people in Europe

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The Opportunistic Rise of Europe’s Far Right

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