The Brink

A left-leaning film made by a left-leaning filmmaker for a left-leaning audience, which doesn't really tell us anything we didn't already know

Displaced workers, along with others who fear for their livelihood, are fertile ground in which to sow anti-immigrant sentiment, since angry and frustrated people often seek some target on which to blame their problems. The right-wing has organised and manipulated such anger and resentment, turned it away from corporations, and directed it against the government, decrying high taxes and the inability of the state to solve problems such as soc__ial deterioration, homelessness, crime, and violence. In addition to the target of failed liberal policies, immigrants make a convenient and tangible target for people's anger. Racial prejudice is often an encoded part of the message.

• Robert Wald Sussman; The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea (2014)

Are there some people that are white nationalists that are attracted to some of the philosophies of the alt-right? Maybe. Are there some people that are anti-Semitic that are attracted? Maybe. Maybe some people are attracted to the alt-right that are homophobes. But that's just like, there are certain elements of the progressive left and the hard left that attract certain elements.

• Steve Bannon; "How Donald Trump's New Campaign Chief Created an Online Haven for White Nationalists" (Sarah Posner); Mother Jones (August 22, 2016)

I'm not a white nationalist, I'm a nationalist. I'm an economic nationalist. The globalists gutted the American working class and created a middle class in Asia. The issue now is about Americans looking to not get fucked over. If we deliver, we'll get 60 percent of the white vote, and 40 percent of the black and Hispanic vote and we'll govern for 50 years.

• Steve Bannon; "Ringside With Steve Bannon at Trump Tower as the President-Elect's Strategist Plots "An Entirely New Political Movement"" (Mic...