Bannon is just the beginning.
If you are unfamiliar with the views and statements of Jared Taylor, or even if you are, I encourage you to peruse the post Jared Taylor Imagines a White Nationalist Trump Administration from the blog Angry White Men.
First some background, via the Southern Poverty Law Center.
About Jared Taylor
He is the founder of the New Century Foundation and edited its now discontinued American Renaissance magazine, which, despite its pseudo-academic polish, regularly publishes proponents of eugenics and blatant anti-black and anti-Latino racists. The magazine was replaced by a lively website, Amren.com. Taylor also hosts a conference every year (it was formerly biannual) where racist intellectuals rub shoulders with Klansmen, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists…
Taylor entered the active racist scene in 1990, when he founded the New Century Foundation, a pseudo-intellectual think tank that promotes "research" arguing for white superiority. A year later, he began publishing American Renaissance….
In the late 1990s, Taylor came out with The Color of Crime, a booklet that tried to use crime statistics to "prove" that blacks are far more criminally prone than whites — and that argued, based on a misunderstanding of what constitutes a hate crime, that black "hate crimes" against whites exponentially outnumbered the reverse. That racist booklet is now a staple in white supremacist circles…
More recently, Taylor has sounded off against all black culture, writing in a 2005 article in American Renaissance, "Africa in our Midst: Lessons from Katrina" that "the barbaric behavior" of the city's black population after the hurricane revealed a key truth: "Blacks and whites are different. When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization —any kind of civilization — disappears."
There’s more, but you get the picture. Now on to the blog post, which includes excerpts from a May 16, 2016 interview with Taylor. Given his profile, I was not surprised to find some truly vile statements. Among them, here is one of the least offensive:
“In terms of having black people live among whites, there are going to be some blacks who will benefit from being protected from the environment that blacks in large numbers very frequently produce. But this comes at a terrible cost to the whites on whom they are inflicted.”
Eventually the conversation turns to a discussion of Trump’s utility in spreading the white nationalist message.
“...[W]hen [Trump] says, What do we need more Muslims for?, well that becomes part of the national dialogue. I’ve been saying for 25 years we don’t need any more Muslims, but I can be ignored. The SPLC can say I’m a hatemonger and then people will ignore me. The SPLC can say all it wants that Donald Trump is a hatemonger, but if he is the Republican nominee, then he is in an entirely different position.
And when people start thinking in those terms, Well, wait a minute, are Muslims really of any use to the United States? Then the next step, of course, is to say, Well, are there any other groups that are of no use to the United States? What do, oh, Guatemalans, for example, bring to our country? What do Somalis bring to our country? What do Haitians bring to America? Do we really need 30,000,000 Mexicans living in this country? When you start thinking in terms of group differences, then the camel’s nose is under the tent. That opens the door to all kinds, all kinds of anti-orthodox, subversive thinking. And so Donald Trump has played a huge role in breaking down the gates of orthodoxy and making it possible to raise these questions in a way that they’ve never been raised, at a level at which they’ve never been raised ever before.”
And what about a President Trump?
“We’d like to believe that he will follow through on his promises, that he will build a wall, that he will expel all the illegals [sic], that he will even temporarily stop immigration of Muslims… He has other appeals, but for us, those are, to me, the three main aspects of his appeal…
We can then imagine a Donald Trump who goes even further. Donald Trump is the only candidate in the last 50 years of whom I could realistically imagine his tossing off to a group of journalists a question such as, Well, what’s wrong with white people wanting to remain a majority in their own country? I can imagine him saying that. He will not necessarily, but I can imagine it. I cannot imagine any other candidate ever saying such a thing.”
Frankly, I can imagine that, too. But there’s more:
“I can even imagine him saying, Well you know, ultimately, you just can’t expect as many blacks per capita to be in the advanced placement courses because they’re just not as smart. I mean I can imagine that with a little bit greater difficulty than the remark about being majorities, but that too is not an utterly inconceivable thing for Donald Trump to say. And if the president of the United States makes remarks of that kind, they simply cannot be brushed aside…”
Brushed aside??? The world this man inhabits is truly grotesque.
Lastly, I include this prediction, about which Taylor may well be correct.
“...[T]here is an aspect of this that very few people are talking about. If there actually is a Trump presidency, he will attract, at all sorts of levels in his administration, people who do think the way we do. Even though they’re not publicly associated with racial dissidents, or white advocacy. He will attract people who read our web pages, who listen to our podcasts, and they will work in all sorts of very, very useful ways in all levels of his administration to bring about sensible policies.
I think I can also imagine that some of them, they will be caught out, oh, saying rude things about blacks or rude things about Mexico, and there will be little scandals here and there. But there will be a great number who will infiltrate his administration, his campaign, his advisers in ways that cannot but be extremely useful both to Trump and to us.”
Racial dissidents. White Advocacy. Sensible policies.
This section gives me the chills every time I read it— not just from phrases like these, but because it tells me that over the next few years we can expect a lot more attempts to mainstream white supremacist ideas, and Jared Taylor’s pseudo-academic tone and normalizing language will be a large part of that effort.