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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, issued a stark warning about the current state of the populist-nationalist movement and its leadership on Stephen K. Bannon’s WarRoom show.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Raheem Kassam and Stephen K. Bannon.

📍WHEN & WHERE: November 14, 2025, during a WarRoom broadcast.

💬KEY QUOTE: “As goes America next year, as goes the MAGA movement, as goes the Republican party’s successes or failures in the midterms, so goes Europe.” – Raheem Kassam

🎯IMPACT: The movement’s direction and leadership could negatively influence the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, with a knock-on impact on populist movements worldwide.

Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, expressed serious concerns about the current state of the populist-nationalist movement and its leadership to former White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon on the WarRoom show on Friday, particularly in relation to the upcoming U.S. midterm elections. “That leadership is coming from a corporate class that have managed to capture so much of what I call MAGA Inc.,” Kassam warned.

“They sell out the people who started this movement… They have almost taken over the whole thing, and it is upon us to grasp it back, to wrestle it back; otherwise, we’re going to get killed next year,” he emphasized.

Kassam noted that the populist-nationalist movement, which began over a decade ago, was built on understanding and addressing the struggles of regular people. “[W]e went around to the little town halls and the little seaside towns all across the United Kingdom and we looked at what people were going through… people whose families and whose grandparents and great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents and whose entire family lineages have been sacrificed day upon day, whether it’s in the mines, whether it’s in the wars… that have created the world that we live in today and that we take for granted every day,” he said of the movement’s beginnings a decade ago.

“And what happened was we saw that they had been shunned, disparaged, spat upon by an establishment who said, ‘Yeah, thanks. We’ll take it from here. You know, thanks for all the hard work of your bloodline, but we’ll take it from here… We don’t need you,” Kassam explained.

The National Pulse chief stated that a similar process is now unfolding in America, with establishment figures who are “just in it for the big bucks” attempting to sideline the authentic populist-nationalists who built the movement “from the ground up,” with potentially disastrous consequences.

Kassam emphasized the importance of genuine engagement with the movement’s grassroots base, warning that the movement’s current trajectory could lead to significant setbacks in the upcoming U.S. midterm elections if these issues are not addressed. “The problem with it is that whether it’s the 50-year mortgages or the $2,000 checks or the bank bosses or the big farmer bosses hanging out in the Oval Office, people just don’t feel like we’re walking into next year in a position of strength. And I happen to agree with them,” he said. “We need to smarten up. We need to sharpen up on these things. And that’s where we are now.”

Kassam also discussed the international implications of the MAGA movement’s success or failure, warning, “As goes America next year, as goes the MAGA movement, as goes the Republican party’s successes or failures in the midterms, so goes Europe.”

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