Steve Bannon sounds a lot like a Huntington disciple. When he isn’t bashing wimpy liberals and calling for reactionaries to “burn it down,” he’s arguing that China is an existential threat to Western civilization. He has major issues with Islam, too. Would Huntington approve of him?
Not really, for two reasons. First of all, Huntington clearly distinguishes between the West and Orthodox civilizations, whereas Bannon does not. Bannon consequently sees Russia as a logical ally against America’s enemies, which doesn’t necessarily follow from Huntington’s analysis. Second, Bannon has a nationalist strain in his thought that logically makes mobilizing the entirety of Western civilization against its adversaries impossible. The EU and NATO embody Huntington’s views; Bannon wants to break them up.