Taboo Italian Thinker Is Enigma to Many, but Not to Bannon

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PhotoMr. Spencer said ?it means a tremendous amount? that Mr. Bannon was aware of Evola and other Traditionalist thinkers. This appeal of traditional values on populist voters and against out-of-touch elites, the ?Pan-European Union? and ?centralized government in the United States,? as Mr. Bannon put it, was not lost on Mr. Trump?s ideological guru. In his Vatican talk, Mr. Bannon suggested that although Mr. Putin represented a ?kleptocracy,? the Russian president understood the existential danger posed by ?a potential new caliphate? and the importance of using nationalism to stand up for traditional institutions. But some on the alt-right consider Mr. Bannon a door through which Evola?s ideas of a hierarchical society run by a spiritually superior caste can enter in a period of crisis. PhotoMr. Bannon suggested in his Vatican remarks that the Fascist movement had come out of Evola?s ideas.