Washington, 31 Dec – Ahead of the European Championships in May, Steve Bannon he has already begun to move his pawns. With his The Movement, a sort of «Populist international», Trump's former strategist wants to offer assistance to all those sovereignist parties that intend to rebel against the Brussels bureaucracy. And Bannon has a completely unique model: «Soros and the others train action-oriented people. I use Soros as a model for many things and also for The Movement. I'm at 100% contrary to his ideology, but I always admire those who get results. One of the things we must apply ourselves to counter them is: fare, not just talk», Bannon declared in ainterview recently granted to Corriere della Sera.
At the newspaper in via Solferino, Steve Bannon also clarified the nature of the political academy he intends to set up in medieval monastery of Trisulti, in the province of Frosinone. An academy that Benjamin Harnwell, its trustee in Europe, described it as a «gladiator school for culture warriors». The former Trump strategist then explained that the academy is not aimed at "newly graduated kids, in a more mature students, dai twenty-seven to forty year olds. People who want to change careers, moving for example from non-profit to the media, to politics, to teaching. There will be one fusion of culture, history, economy, understanding media and social media, to create more traditional change agents". And the model is, precisely, l’Open Society on George Soros. Declined though, Obviously, in a sovereignist/populist sense.