What would Lenin do?

Is the new chief executive of the Trump campaign a Leninist? That is how he allegedly described himself to Ronald Radosh at a book party held in his Capitol Hill townhouse in early 2014. Radosh reports in The Daily Beast,

Shocked, I asked him what he meant.

“Lenin,” he answered, “wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.” Bannon was employing Lenin’s strategy for Tea Party populist goals. He included in that group the Republican and Democratic Parties, as well as the traditional conservative press.

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