In order to become an aide of the Trump/Bannon regime you need to fall into a Venn diagram of sorts that combines racism with anti-Semitism and Islamophobia and white supremacy and a general loathing of the lower-income classes of our country. And you usually have worked at Breitbart at some point along the way. Sebastian Gorka is such a man. The once Breitbart “national security editor” (see, rabid anti-Muslim), lover of Ming the Merciless’s style, and man who walks around wearing the clothes and symbols of Nazi sympathizers—literally—is in more hot water. Forward has uncovered some video from 2007 which shows Gorka in all of his militarized anti-Semitic splendor.
In a video obtained by the Forward of an August 2007 television appearance by Gorka, the future White House senior aide explicitly affirms his party’s and his support for the black-vested Hungarian Guard (Magyar Gárda) — a group later condemned by the European Court of Human Rights for attempting to promote an “essentially racist” legal order.
Asked directly on the TV interview program if he supports the move by Jobbik, a far-right anti-Semitic party, to establish the militia, Gorka, appearing as a leader of his own newly formed party, replies immediately, “That is so.” The Guard, Gorka explains, is a response to “a big societal need.”
The interview is longer than what is clipped below and the Forward breaks down a lot of what’s covered in it. One of the more telling and Breitbartian things said by Gorka is his answer concerning statements by many in Hungary’s Jewish community that a push for this kind of militia has led to a “flare-up” of anti-Semitism.
“This is a tool,” Gorka replied. “This type of accusation is the very useful tool of a certain political class.”
He advises unpopular President Trump and it shows. Watch the banality of evil talk about defending “society’s soul.”