Stephen K.
Bannon drinks Kombucha (who knew?), the fermented tea beverage for health fanatics that tastes like…well, if they ever invented a soft drink called Germs, that’s what Kombucha tastes like.
In “The Brink,” Alison Klayman’s fly-on-the-wall, rise-and-fall-and-rise-of-a-white-nationalist documentary, Bannon explains that he likes Kombucha because it gives him a lift; he drinks it for the same reason he drinks Red Bull.
At one point in the movie, he jokes that now that his Kombucha habit is going to be outed, the stock will probably drop by 50 percent.
He means the stock for Kombucha, but for a moment you think he’s talking about the stock of Steve Bannon.
How will it influence his image when the world learns that he craves the pause that refreshes the palettes of lefty progressives?Bannon, as always, thinks he’s two steps ahead of us.
(It’s part of his ’50s-salt-of-the-earth-meets-Goldman-Sachs-meets-The-Art-of-War élan.
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