Hmm. Tendencies.

The Mooch Unloads: Steve Bannon Has A Messianic Complex And White Nationalist “Tendencies”

Despite Wikipedia, people who say they are white nationalists, making their usage similar to this of "black nationalism", say that what they want is an exclusively white homeland.

That is what defines white nationalism, according to them.

The traditional ethno-nationalists of Europe - Italian, German, or Scots, for example - would necessarily live in exclusively white homelands if they lived in exclusively Scots, German, or Italian homelands.

But that is not what they desire as ethno-nationalists.

It is untrue that who desires A desires every consequence of A, or even every logical consequence of A.

The infamous novel, The Turner Diaries, bedtime reading of Timothy McVeigh, espoused a version of white nationalism for which the desired, exclusively white homeland was to be the planet Earth, from which nonwhites were to be purged by extermination.

But not all white nationalists are exterminationists and not all whites who want to exterminate somebody want to exterminate everybody who isn't white.

White supremacists want something different, something far more like the old Jim Crow regime of segregation in America.

There are numerous white people who don't want any of those things, but do want to maintain the majority status of whites in America, and along with it the democratically, demographically, and numerically resulting white predominance in politics and culture.

The kind of "white skin privilege" that comes more or less automatically with whites being the majority in a democratic society in which no one is excluded from participation on account of race.

And these folks also seem generally to be called "white nationalists" by the media, ignoring the different usage of the people for and by whom the term was invented.

Too, a quick look around the Internet shows that definitions and usages of these terms vary quite a bit in different ways from the understanding here: white nationalist, white supremacist, white separationist.

But, anyway, if Bannon doesn't actually want any of the above options what does it mean to say he "has white nationalist tendencies"?

Was it nothing but a smear to please the viewers of The View?