Please consider reading this WaPo article on the “danger” of the Bannon installation on the NSC.
Meanwhile, the roles and attendance of the director of national intelligence (top ranking intelligence officer) and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (top ranking military officer) are downgraded.
Shorter version of “deeply concerning” (Evan McMullin, former CIA operative, twitter link).
This is not what democracy looks like, but it is a reasonable facsimile of what an authoritarian leader would do: elevate his own political operative over the heads of the intelligence community and the military.
The immigration policy decisions are awful, and Bannon helped make them even worse.
Letting him onto the NSC will give him way more power to create way more awful.
This is Paul Revere time.
Call/fax/Facebook/Tweet/write/email your senators and your congressional representative, especially if they are Republican, to protect democracy and keep Bannon off the NSC.
You can use this website to find contact info for yourelected officials or others you may wish to call others such as Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, etc.
You may also wish to call John McCain, who is not unconcerned, and his friend Lindsey Graham.
Alert members of the media. You are concerned. Very concerned.
Let us be respectful, be the citizen, and be the government as it is meant to be.