‘MAGA Will Govern for 50 Years’: Steve Bannon Opens CPAC With Prediction of Trump Victory Amid ‘Three Global Crises’

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Steve Bannon opened the Conservative Political Action Conference on Wednesday with a bombastic speech in which he vowed “MAGA will govern for fifty years” if Trump wins the 2024 presidential election.

Bannon, 70, helped run Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and briefly served in Trump’s White House before being fired by Trump and attacked by the then-president on social media.

“Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the Republican party,” Trump fumed in January 2018.

Bannon has since gone on to become a major influence in the MAGA movement with his far-right War Room podcast.

Bannon went on to claim Trump “will go down as the best president since Abraham Lincoln” and hoped he will win in “a massive frickin’ landslide” come November. Bannon was joined by other far-right influencers on Wednesday, including Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec. Trump is set to address the conference on Saturday.

“Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on Jan. 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it,” Posobiec told the crowd as Bannon added, “Amen”

Bannon also spoke on a panel at CPAC and warned of an impending global financial crisis and the potential for World War II.

“We have these converging crises. I think the biggest crises may be the massive amount of debt that we have the $300 trillion of debt that we have globally, and that no one government has a path to get out of here that is going to converge in a couple of years and lead to a massive financial crisis that will dwarf 2008 and will dwarf what happened in 1929,” Bannon said, adding:

And right now, we don’t have a political class who can deal with that. In addition, you’ve got the beginning of a kinetic Third World War on the Eurasian landmass that has many attributes of even the second World War. But you’ve got you’ve got a kinetic war, underway right now. And underlying all that is a mass invasion of Europe and a mass invasion of the United States.

Those three crises are all going to converge here in the next couple of years, and governments are going to fall because of that. And that’s why I think the populist movement, the nationalist movement, is going to be a solution to make sure that the people that are citizens of these countries, citizens of individual countries, are going to have a response to the populist nationalist movement or the the national conservative movement or whatever it’s called in Europe today.

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