Trump's Appointment of Stephen Bannon is a Call to Arms for American Jews and Muslims
Last Sunday, President Obama warned us that Donald Trump couldn’t be trusted with the nuclear codes. A week later, not only do we know that Trump will get those codes, but he’s shown us who he’d like to guide him in crises that might require their use. Stephen Bannon, the former chairman of Breitbart News, has been tapped as the new president’s Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor.
Who is Stephen Bannon? He is the man who boasted about turning Breitbart into “the platform for the alt-right.” Now, “alt-right” is one of those words Westerners make up to pretend that they don’t suffer from the same flaws and faults as other, less civilized peoples. Were this a New York Times article about a faraway continent, for example, we’d be blunter. “Alt-right” is just another term for racist. White supremacist. Anti-Semitic. Hateful.