[justaguyonline]

>I think I would of agreed if I hadn't read a larger quote giving the actual context here. It's very hard to brush it off in the same way:

BANNON: Second term kicks off with firing Wray, firing Fauci. Now, I actually want to go a step farther, but I realize the president is a kind-hearted man and a good man. I'd actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England, I'd put the heads on pikes, right, I'd put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats. You either get with the program or you're gone -- time to stop playing games. blow it all up, put Ric Grenell today as the interim head of the FBI, that'll light them up, right.

JACK MAXEY (CO-HOST): You know what Steve, just yesterday there was the anniversary of the hanging of two Tories in Philadelphia, these were Quaker businessmen who had cohabitated if you will with the British while they were occupying Philadelphia. These people were hung. This is what we used to do to traitors.

BANNON: That's how you won the revolution. No one wants to talk about it. The revolution wasn't some sort of garden party, right? It was a civil war. It was a civil war.

>The call to replicate actual specific events in the American Revolution really makes it feel real, along with the mention of a civil war being on.

[goodside]

Thanks — I agree that’s a bit worse. But it’s still pretty clear he’s speaking in the context of what the President should do, and obviously the President can’t have his enemies’ heads displayed Tudor-style on the White House fence. He’s not bringing up Tudors as a sincere suggestion, he’s arguing that any (realistic) punishment would be mild by historical standards.

[boublepop]

So he’s calling for the president to murder a person and your defending his position by saying “obviously the president can’t have people murdered”.

Let’s say someone was calling for the gassing of Jews, would you also defend their position with a sentiment of: “ but that’s ok, because obviously a state can’t just start rounding up Jews and gassing them”?

Or perhaps his speech should be judged on his stated intent ?

[_y5hn]

He's also clamouring for civil war, in addition to dreaming for murder, instead of just firing everyone not licking their boots. This is a direct threat to civil discourse, democracy and fairness. It is evil.