PODCAST: Why Bannonism-Trumpism is in NZ & Why ACT is Vulnerable
https://youtu.be/mG3nm_a0D0U
A View from Afar – Bannonism-Trumpism, a cultural ideological export – Political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning deep-dive into how Aotearoa New Zealand is in the cross-hairs of two distinct political powers – one has been around for awhile and applies influence operations aimed at elites; and the other is new to this part of the world and uses cultural and ideological diffusion that is aimed at civil society and aims to change the character of democracy itself. Can countries like New Zealand resist the slide into US-styled political chaos?
In this podcast we explore the under-defined, but hardly hidden, ideology that we will refer to as Bannonism-Trumpism.
So what is taking shape in New Zealand? Why is New Zealand a political lab-rat of sorts?
How is this battle taking place for the minds and political thinking of New Zealand voters?
What should you be aware of?
What political parties are most vulnerable to these two powerful external influences?
What is the end-game?
Is resistance achievable?
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I’ve listened to Bannon being interviewed, I’ve appreciated many of his insights and often found him interesting.
Three things that that struct me in this podcast:
[1.] The ridiculous idea that Act voters want to run around verbally abusing people and breaking laws.
[2.] Painting a huge chuck of the voting population (Act voters) as crazies that have banded together.
[3.] Regarding the American media; by saying Trump and his voters disrespected the media.. it implies (the presupposition) that the American media is credible.
This podcast then goes on to condemn, IMO, citizen journalism in NZ. It’s no secret NZ has little-to-no investigative journalism and Ministers make themselves unavailable.
I think this podcast contained an echo-chambers worth of far-left, pernicious views and ideologies. Perhaps they could actually interview David Seymour?
Mr Bannon is far more insightful then these two. Labour will likely fall pray to their demented hubris at the next election.
Hit a nerve it seems. We know it’s definitely on point then. “Citizen journalism” is that what you consider counter spin media? You opinion is garbage, like the Act party.
Isn’t Mr Bannon going to prison?
I appreciated this conversation on influencers manufacturing ideological strains of the CCP and Bannonism, the nuance of liberty vs libertine and I am also concerned with the rise of ACT. However I cannot help but feel a 3rd threat has been completely passed over.
Direct messaging at the fault lines of society, subversion of culture and institutions establishing a counter hegemonic ideology as conceived by Antonio Gramsci, camouflage in claims to support civil liberties and new American-imported rhetoric are also all hallmarks of the identitarian left (woke/critical theorists) which I’d argue is far more established than Bannonism and indeed engendering a backlash that may facilitate the rise of Bannonism.
Speaking of rhetoric, the breathless invocations of misogyny, racism, and white supremacy (how for example do concerns among some Maori align with the latter two?) and describing liberal democracies as serving ‘white-patriarchal heteronormative power and privilege’ suggest Mr Buchanan is somewhat influenced by this third ideology. Although of course he’s mistaken it’s white-patriarchal-CIS-heteronormative power.
Agree with Denny, I enjoy ‘A View from Afar’ but there is something of the pious (I’d add myopic) middle-class attitude in what came across in today’s show.