It’s looking like the new White House chief of staff is going to be a useless apologist.
Reince Priebus said Monday that incoming White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is actually “very wise and smart” and “was a force for good on this campaign.” ...
Priebus was asked Monday morning if the ideology of Breitbart, which has published stories headlined “There’s no hiring bias against women in tech, they just suck at interviews,” “birth control makes women unattractive and crazy” and “Bill Kristol: Republican spoiler, renegade Jew,” will arrive at the White House with Bannon.
Sure, Priebus spent the campaign trying to reassure fellow Republicans that his crazy, xenophobic racist candidate wasn’t crazy, xenophobic, and racist. As a reward, Reince gets to spend the next four years (or less) sitting outside the door while Trump and Bannon snicker over really wicked tweets. But honestly, when it comes to Bannon, he should just not bother.
“It is easy to see why the KKK views Trump as their champion when Trump appoints one of the foremost peddlers of White Supremacist themes and rhetoric as his top aide. Bannon was ‘the main driver behind Breitbart becoming a white ethno-nationalist propaganda mill,’ according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.”
Bannon’s version of Breitbart has cheered online harassment, saying that women should just “log off” if they don’t like it. It’s provided the source for Trump’s lies about Muslims celebrating 9/11, and has frequently vilified immigrants. It’s attacked not just organizations trying to protect women’s rights, but individuals and groups just trying to protect women. It’s pushed the idea that Black Lives Matter is the start of a “race war,” and that blacks and Jews (especially George Soros, always George Soros) are plotting together to start a violent revolution. It’s attacked blacks, women, Jews, immigrants, and Muslims in any order and in combinations.
Is Bannon a good Nazi or a bad Nazi? Answer: He’s a frickin’ Nazi.