Steve Bannon: We have to seize the institutions

You use the word war a lot. If you. really think there is a risk of civil. war and there and the situation is as. bad as you are saying, don't you have a. responsibility as someone who sees this. and who's a student of history and has. seen what has happened in history to. calm things down? >> Not to calm things down at all to warn. people. Do you think if we calm things. down they're going to stop? What planet. are you living on? This is my problem. with this whole concept of liberal. debate. We're in a revolutionary time. both technologically, geopolitically,

right? Financially, we must go to the. ramparts because if you're just passive. and docel and just flick the channel and. watch the National Football League and. go to Taylor Swift concerts, it's over. This is our this is the fourth turning. The strength of the populist nationalist. MAGA movement in this country is we're. anti-fragile. We're resilient. You can. give us your best shot. You can put us. in prison. You can take our credit cards. away. You can debank us. You can. deplatform us. You can have all the tech. stuff that happened. We can't be beaten.

if we don't quit. And if that takes hot. rhetoric, you ain't seen nothing yet. because we're now getting into the. middle of this fight. And we're never. going to we're never going to cowtow. these people. We're never going to get. on our knees to these people. We're. never going to apologize. We're never. going to say we're sorry. All we care. about is victory against victory gets. victory. And we know that we're ascended. and they're in decline. We as a populist. nationalist movement, as a MAGA. movement, we need to do like the. redistricting fights. We need to get. this is why I was down in Texas. We need. to we need to get the house in a.

situation that is permanently defendable. by the MAGA movement. Right? So, so it's. a blocking mechanism and take that like. I said, you move a maximalist strategy. with a sense of urgency and you seize. the institutions and that's what we're. doing right now. >> I don't see I don't see how that is a. recipe for diffusing this crisis. I I. think that what happens is when people. feel shut out of power and interest. groups cannot get representation and. cannot get an input into the way that. policy is made. That's precisely when.

you end up with civil war. I disagree. I. think I think you'll see no because I. think the mechanism will be that people. in the Democratic party will adjust and. change say hey we actually have to start. winning elections and we have to have a. message that can resonate with many. Americans that we can start getting back. control of the House of Representatives. we can take the Senate and most. importantly we can take the presidency. I think you will see a I think that. you'll force the civil war to be inside. of those guys and they'll say these. radicals are saying violence and we have.

to seize the institutions. Seize them. and then purge them. We seize the. institution, purge them and that's why. you've got guys. It's not the Doge crap. This is serious people like Russ vote. and others that have spent years. thinking this whole plan through. We. must strike and we must strike now.