Bannon had a starker, more aggressive take on this idea: He believed the Democrats were simply using American minorities for their own political ends. He was convinced that the social compact that emerged after the civil rights movement, where Democrats benefited from African American votes in exchange for government aid, was not born out of any moral enlightenment, but instead out of shrewd calculation. In his framing, the only way the Democrats could defend what he saw as the inconvenient truths of this social compact was through political correctness. Democrats subjected “rationalists” to
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