But few have discussed the fundamental oddity of Evola serving as an intellectual inspiration for the alt-right. References to Evola abounded on websites such as Breitbart News, The Daily Stormer, and well before The New York Times noted the Bannon-Evola connection earlier this month. What he did not mention is that Evola hated not only Jews, but Christianity, too. He also mentioned the late Julius Evola, a far-right Italian philosopher popular with the American alt-right movement. He spoke about the need to defend the values of the “Judeo-Christian West”-a term he used 11 times-against crony capitalism and libertarian capitalism, secularization, and Islam. In the summer of 2014, years before he became the White House chief strategist, Steve Bannon gave a lecture via Skype at a conference held inside the Vatican.
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