To convince his audience that liberals and hippies are to blame for the financial depredations of the last 20 years, Bannon trots out conservative economists like Amity Schlaes and Arthur Brooks, who have long argued that the New Deal didn't save the American economy but simply entrenched big government and made it an enemy of the hard-working entrepreneur - or, as Schlaes phrases it, anticipating Trump, "the man who pays, the man who prays, the man who is not thought of, the forgotten man."