Steve Bannon wants you to believe he’s a war general for the forgotten man — a blue-collar prophet in cargo pants, ready to torch the global elites on behalf of truckers and farmers. But strip away the flannel and fury, and what you find isn’t a populist — it’s a financier, a Hollywood operator, and a man worth $20 million LARPing as a coal-dusted crusader for the common man.

This is the hustle: Bannon talks like a patriot but lives like a prince. He rails against the globalists while building his own global network. He warns you about the machine even as he becomes a vital gear in it.

Let’s rewind. Before Breitbart, before the “War Room” podcast, before the MAGA movement and talk of “deconstructing the administrative state,” Steve Bannon was something far less revolutionary: a banker. And not just any banker — he was a high-powered executive at Goldman Sachs, the very temple of global finance he now pretends to rage against. He didn’t........

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