THE American guest in ill-fitting clothes was a curiously bedraggled sight next to his sharp-suited French hosts. But when Steve Bannon took to the stage as the surprise invité at the National Front congress in the city of Lille earlier this month, he stole the show. "Let them call you racists. Let them call you xenophobes. Let them call you nativists," declared Donald Trump's former chief strategist. "Wear it as a badge of honour!" As each of his phrases was translated into French, the star-struck audience applauded. Fresh from meeting populists and nationalists from Germany and Italy, Mr Bannon hailed the rise of a global movement and told them: "History is on our side."
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