Friday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson reacted to Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon’s departure from the White House earlier in the day.

Carlson said while the West Wing may be a “more placid place” now, there were questions about the politics of those by which President Donald Trump is surrounded in Bannon’s absence.

“The White House will be a much more placid place now that he’s gone,” Carlson said. “The question is will it be a better place? Let’s put it this way — Bannon was one of the relatively few senior staff in the White House who wouldn’t feel at home in a Hillary Clinton administration. Indeed, he was one of the rare Republicans there and the only, or one of the very few, populist conservatives. That’s strange since populist conservatism is the platform his boss ran on.”

Carlson told his viewers Bannon was one of those in the Trump administration that remembered why Trump was elected last November.

“Say what you will about Steve Bannon,” he added. “And you can say a lot, but he never forgot why Trump got elected in the first place and in a democracy that is not a small thing. Bannon kept a white board in his office of campaign promises. It’s probably already been taken down by now.”

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On Monday alt-Left thugs toppled an historic Confederate statue in Durham, North Carolina.

The criminal mob, led by Takiyah Thompson, tied a strap around the statue and tore it down.

#BREAKING Protesters in #Durham topple confederate monument downtown http://pic.twitter.com/a3BNIavyxC

— Derrick Lewis (@DerrickQLewis) August 14, 2017

on Tuesday Takiya (or Takiyah) Thompson was arrested as she left the communications building at North Carolina Central University.

BREAKING: Takiya Thompson, woman who admits to climbing and helping bring down a Confederate statue in Durham, is arrested. #WRAL http://pic.twitter.com/vfoIsnhwRj

— Adam Owens (@AdamOwensTV) August 15, 2017

Now the university wants to give the alt-left thug a scholarship for her criminal actions.

These are the immoral, intolerant goons teaching your children.

The Daily Caller reported:

The student charged with pushing down the Confederate statue in Durham, North Carolina on Monday may be rewarded with a scholarship for her actions from North Carolina Central University.

The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on Wednesday that proposals are being made at the college to award Takiyah Thompson, who has been charged with two felonies—participation in a riot and inciting others to riot—for her actions.

News that Thompson was involved in the demonstration was reportedly met with widespread support from campus faculty and students in her Introduction to Political Science class.

“I saw the demonstration and the toppling of the monument. I think it’s a healthy thing for students to have a voice and to be leaders in activism,” said Jim C. Harper II, chair of the history department. “We’re going to do everything we can to support Ms. Thompson.”

Her professor, Allan Cooper, said that the entire class applauded when he revealed to them that Thompson was the person charged with toppling the statue. Following the news, Cooper sent an email to the chair to propose giving Thompson a scholarship.

The unfolding war on statues is unlike anything that has ever been seen in this once-great country.

Hordes of crazed leftists have been using bullying, guerilla tactics, economic terrorism, and most of all the threat of violence to force the removal of any and all Confederate monuments in America.

Local and state governments and universities haven’t even bothered to put up a fight against the demands of those who are behaving like Nazis and fascists who will never be satisfied until they have enforced a Khmer Rouge “Year Zero” form of governance on U.S. soil.

The latest to surrender? Duke University, famous for the Blue Devils college basketball team and a bogus story of campus rape published by the leftist rag Rolling Stone.

The university quickly moved to appease the fanatics and took down the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on Saturday morning.

JUST IN: Duke University takes down statue of Robert E. Lee https://t.co/dRceXSvyIh http://pic.twitter.com/XVJKEF6gqQ

— The Hill (@thehill) August 19, 2017

The Hill is reporting “Duke University takes down statue of Lee”:

Duke University has removed a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee from its campus amid an intensifying national debate over Confederate statues and monuments.

The university said it took the statue down from its perch in Duke Chapel early Saturday morning, three days after it had been damaged by vandalism.

In an email to students, faculty, staff and alumni Saturday morning, University President Vincent Price said he chose to have the statue removed to protect the chapel and its parishioners, and to “express the deep and abiding values of our university.”

The Lee statue will be preserved to allow students to “study Duke’s complex past and take part in a more inclusive future,” he said.

“Wednesday night’s act of vandalism made clear that the turmoil and turbulence of recent months do not stop at Duke’s gates,” Price said in the statement. “We have a responsibility to come together as a community to determine how we can respond to this unrest in a way that demonstrates our firm commitment to justice, not discrimination; to civil protest, not violence; to authentic dialogue, not rhetoric; and to empathy, not hatred.”

Lofty language from Mr. Price but he is caving to the haters to whom the last thing that they will ever accept is “authentic” dialogue and the Confederate statues are only the beginning.

Yet another coward who is unfit to head the institution that signs his paychecks and has tarnished Duke’s good name for surrendering to those using terrorist tactics.

Country music legend and all-around patriotic American Charlie Daniels isn’t known as a man who shrinks from saying that which is true despite how much that people will hate it.

During this hideous week of media-generated fear and loathing, anyone who dares to defend our national history by suggesting that tearing down Confederate monuments and statues is wrong risks being labeled as a Nazi, getting fired from their jobs or worse.

But in times of extreme intolerance and wall-to-wall propaganda that plays right into the hands of a rising tide of totalitarianism, the true mettle of a man is tested and those who ignore the herd mentality are as rare as they are courageous.

That would be Daniels, who has made it very clear that those who are ripping down statues are no better than any of history’s worst monsters and in this case, he nailed it dead on by pointing out that the war on statues is like something that ISIS would do.

.@CharlieDaniels compares taking down Confederate statues to ISIS: ‘Where does it stop?’ https://t.co/WZzFmAjllT

— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 18, 2017

Via Fox News “Charlie Daniels compares taking down Confederate statues to ISIS: ‘Where does it stop?’”:

Charlie Daniels compared removing Confederate statues in America to ISIS destroying historical sites in Iraq and Syria.

“That’s what ISIS is doing over in places,” Daniels told Newsmax TV. “There were pieces of history that they didn’t like, they were taking them down.”

The 80-year-old added, “Where does it stop? Is it going to be Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson or are we headed into Jefferson, Washington, who were both slave owners? How deep into history are we going to go?”

Daniels said it’s important to accept that there are “people who were part of our history who were not very savory characters.”

The “Devil Went Down to Georgia” singer’s suggestion if you don’t like the statues?

“If you don’t like it, don’t look at it,” he suggested.

That would seem to be good advice as well as the customary practice in regards to statues that in some cases, have stood for over a century without being torn down to erase a piece of history that a minority of extremists find offensive.

If the statues were so horrible, why didn’t Obama call for them to be torn down? It never seemed to be an issue before this summer.

And he is also correct that it won’t stop with the Confederate statues. Already there are calls to tear down statues of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson and once these men and the Founding Fathers are deemed to be racists and slaveowners, the U.S. Constitution itself can be targeted as well.

What is needed are more voices like Daniels making the necessary comparison, if enough speak up then perhaps the media will dial down their hate-mongering commentary and fake news and the fever will break although it’s probably too far gone for that to happen at this point.