Bannon treated vaccine-passport resistance as a ripe crossover issue among the surveillance-wary

Evidence

At the time my doppelganger started appearing on War Room, less than three months into the Biden presidency, Bannon was getting serious about sculpting his new MAGA Plus coalition. It was in this context that he recognized Wolf’s “slavery forever” message about vaccine passports as a potentially potent crossover issue. Other Naomi’s surveillance warnings, regardless of how divorced they were from the reality of the apps, were generating deep passion among a sizable number of people who were concerned about privacy and surveillance but were being dismissed by establishment liberals in politics and media. That’s Bannon’s kind of issue: ripe for the picking. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 399

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to Klein’s diagonalism thesis — how wellness/anti-vax sentiment merges into the far-right coalition.