more-inNearly two weeks ago, Steve Bannon, an influential voice in the American right wing, spoke at length in a conference organised by a popular television channel. Hearing him, one realises that while his world view overlaps with Trump’s, it is he who endows the ideas and instincts of the Trump-era right wing with a historical and contextual reading of what constitutes American society. Seeds of doubtTo their enemies, such men on the right appear as dogmatic, compromised, and almost always dangerous. What followed with the rise of commercial and industrial capitalism changed the nature of American society, the relationships between its members, and democracy itself. Material comfort, which was one of the facets of American community living, now became the singular focus.

Source: The Hindu July 28, 2018 18:45 UTC