Stephen K. Bannon and the European Populist Movement Comparative Analysis of Bannon’s Activities in Italy and Hungary

With the rise of the Tea Party movement in the late 2000s, Stephen K. Bannon emerged as a major player in the conservative circles. For years, Bannon has produced political documentaries. However, his time at Breitbart, the leading right-wing publication gave him a national and even an international platform to promote his worldview. In the August of 2016, became the chief executive officer of Trump’s presidential campaign, which later gave him an unprecedented power in the new administration. Although very influential for a period of time, Bannon stayed in the White House for less than a year. After he was ousted from Trump administration, Stephen Bannon turned to Europe in order to build a nationalist and a populist movement, prior to the 2019 European Parliament election. There have been more than a few books written about Bannon. Nevertheless, not one addresses his work and activities in Europe from 2017 until 2019. This project provides an interdisciplinary overview of Stephen K. Bannon, as a European populist figure, while exploring political, philosophical and religious influences that had a formative experience on Bannon’s political thought. Last but not least, Bannon’s worldview will be analyzed as well as his activities in Italy and Hungary.