Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon says conservatives need to work on getting through a "corrupt and incompetent" Republican establishment.

During a speech Sunday at a rally hosted by Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, Bannon said he left the White House earlier this year to help President Trump from the outside, according to The Associated Press.

Trump "needed a wingman to go against the Republican establishment," Bannon said.

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“It’s not the Democrats, we’ll get to them and we’ll beat them, like we beat Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonBiden leads Trump by 36 points nationally among Latinos: poll Democratic super PAC to hit Trump in battleground states over coronavirus deaths Battle lines drawn on precedent in Supreme Court fight MORE,” Bannon said, the news service reported. “But the first thing you’ve got to get through is a corrupt and incompetent Republican establishment."

Bannon chided congressional Republicans, saying they don't back Trump's "populist, nationalist, conservative" ideas.

“They’re not conservatives. They’re liberals, and that is what we’ve got to fight every day,” he said.

Bannon was awarded the Phyllis Schlafly Eagle Award by the conservative leadership group.

The rally Sunday in St. Louis, Mo., came at a time when the city has been at the center of major protests and demonstrations.

Bannon returned to Breitbart News last month after leaving the White House.