Steve Bannon's Three Pillar Ideology

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Steve Bannon's Three Pillar Ideology is a series of parody tweets of a comment former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon made about the three pillars of his ideology: Nationalism, cryptocurrencies, and digital sovereignty. People mocked the three pillars by posting their own, absurd pillars of ideology.

Origin

On March 22nd, 2018, Daily Beast reporter Max Tani tweeted^[1] from Steve Bannon's speech at the Financial Times' "Future of News" conference in New York. He wrote, "Bannon says the three pillars of his new ideology are nationalism, cryptocurrencies, and digital sovereignty." The tweet (shown below) received more than 280 retweets and 530 likes in 24 hours.

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Shortly after Tani tweeted, others began posting the three pillars of their ideology. Twitter^[2] user @jbouie tweeted, "*extremely steve bannon voice* you see the future belongs to a great new movement defined by three things: phrenology blockchain waluigi." The tweet (shown below, left) received more than 230 retweets and 1,300 likes in 24 hours. Twitter^[3] user @darth tweeted, "the three pillars of my new ideaology are 1) hug all the dogs 2) eat all the french fries 3) did i mention dogs." The post (shown below, center) received more than 280 retweets and 2,500 likes in 24 hours. Reporter Yashar Ali tweeted,^[4] "The three pillars of my ideology are elephants, dogs, and Stevie Nicks." The post (shown below, right) received more than 60 retweets and 800 likes in 24 hours.

That day, The Daily Dot covered the popularity of the meme.^[5]

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