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Steve Bannon, now serving as Donald Trump's chief strategist and senior counselor, expressed his global nationalist vision at a conference held inside the Vatican in 2014. He praised European far-right parties like Great Britain's UKIP and France's National Front and suggested that a racist element "all gets kind of washed out". Bannon also discussed capitalism and its "crisis", as well as the failure to prosecute bank executives over the financial crisis. The conference was hosted by the Human Dignity Institute, which promotes a "Christian voice" in European politics and has ties to conservative factions inside the Catholic Church.