The normalization of Trump and his gang of goons has begun. Trump speaks. The media caves.
Let us be clear. Trump's appointment of Stephen K. Bannon, as strategist is a cause for serious alarm.
Bannon, executive chairman of Breitbart News, has been telling us who he is since assuming that position in 2007.
Bannon.
As Daniel J. Powell put it on Twitter, "Hey media, referring to Steve Bannon as 'former Goldman Sachs exec' is like referring to Charles Manson as 'former singer/songwriter.'" WTF, New York Times.
Bannon's association with the alt-right movement and the racist, sexist and anti-Semitic voices, given breath and distribution through Breitbart, have led the Southern Poverty Law Center, media outlets and Senator Harry Reid to denounce him as a white nationalist.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which has said on Twitter that "Stephen Bannon was the main driver behind Breitbart becoming a white ethno-nationalist propaganda mill," wrote this summary on April 28, 2016:
The outlet has undergone a noticable shift toward embracing ideas on the extremist fringe of the conservative right. Racist ideas. Anti-muslim and anti-immigrant ideas -- all key tenets making up and emerging racist ideology known as the Alt-Right.
...Breitbart has also organized conferences featuring nativist speakers and published op-eds and interviews with movement leaders. But since 2015, Breitbart began publishing more overtly racist diatribes about Muslims and immigrants.
Full Southern Poverty Law Center article here.
All over Twitter White Nationalists rejoiced over the Bannon appointment.
Bannon's ex-wife who filed charges of domestic violence against Bannon (here) also charged that personally he made anti-Semitic remarks Anti-Semitic Trump campaign CEO Stephen Bannon not a big fan of 'whiny brat' Jews, ex-wife says
After Bannon's elevation was announced, the South Poverty Law Center tweeted several controversial stories written by Breitbart under Bannon's control, including a piece published two weeks after the mass killing at a black church in Charleston, S.C., last year: "Hoist it high and proud: the confederate flag proclaims a glorious heritage."
That is the cover photo on this article. It was posted on Breitbart on July 1, 2015.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has also written a letter to Trump saying that Bannon has no business in the White House.
Tell your legislators to object.
No, this is not acceptable, Trump. No, this is not acceptable, GOP collaborators.
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November 14, 2016
