Steve Bannon loved this. But he wanted CA to go further—and darker. He wanted to test the malleability of the American psyche. He urged us to include what were in effect racially biased questions in our research, to see just how far we could push people. The firm started testing questions about black people—whether they were capable of succeeding in America without the help of whites, for example, or whether they were genetically predetermined to fail. Bannon believed that the civil rights movement had limited “free thinking” in America. He was determined to liberate people by revealing what
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