“War Room” host Steve Bannon has often described himself as a “Leninist” — not because he actually embraces communist ideology or the economic teachings of Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky or Karl Marx, but because he believes that former President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement needs to tear down in order to create. Lenin taught that communism, in order to be successful, needed to destroy existing institutions — not try to reform them. Bannon, similarly, has called for MAGA to give the United States’ federal government a dramatic reset. The New Republic’s Michael Tomasky, in a scathing article publ…
