by walter russell mead.f you want to understand how steve bannon explains his political views, maybe slightly different from how he actually forms them. some of this might be a veneer, that he enjoys the credibility bestowed by this book, but he certainly knows it backward and forward. it is an interesting book. it defines a sort of four general threads of thought woven through american history about america's relationship to the world, how americans perceive the relationship to the world. one of those auto it seems to me to be mead's real purpose was what he was just speaking about, the jacksonian point of view. certainly steve bannon identifies himself as part of that world view. he thinks of his -- he will tell you verbatim that his jacksonian ideals are in sync with walter russell mead. brian: is that how the portrait of andrew jackson got on the wall in the oval office? wil: i believe so, yes. great -- anch into a lengthy and perhaps dull exposition about all of that, because i think they misunderstand