After Andrew Breitbart dropped dead walking his dog, Steve Bannon took over Breitbart.com which soon became the GO-TO place for the white nationalist Alt Right movement. White racial Christian purity for America and the EU. Though those Italians are purdy swarthy.
Bannon one of the first to throw in with The Donald brought Breitbart from the fringe to the conservative mainstream. Steve Bannon as the President of the United State’s most trusted accomplice is now the second most powerful man in the world. Rather than milquetoast media or Fox News define him, let me give Slate a shot at it.
The President’s Top Adviser Is Literally a KKK-Level White Power Scumbag – By Ben Mathis-Lilley
And yet, I would like to complain that it should be bigger news that the second-most-powerful person in the White House has in recent days been revealed to have repeatedly endorsed an extremely racist 1970s novel, The Camp of the Saints, that is “revered” in the foulest depths of the white-power movement. Newly infamous Iowa congressman/white nationalist Steve King just endorsed The Camp of the Saints in a radio interview; two days ago, white supremacist Jared Taylor—who organizes an annual conference attended by KKK figures and “white pride” advocates—celebrated its newfound prominence on Twitter.
Let’s review the whole situation.
1. Steve Bannon, the former publisher of Breitbart.com, was the “chief executive” of Donald Trump’s campaign and is now the White House’s “chief strategist.” He is a longtime advocate of hard-line immigration policies and is reportedly one of the administration figures most closely involved with Trump’s executive orders banning travelers from majority-Muslim countries.
2. At Breitbart, Bannon gave heavy promotion to the career of Milo Yiannopoulos, an all-around gutter person who, for the purposes of this article, is notable for having posed for photos wearing an Iron Cross and holding books about Hitler; Yiannopoulos also engaged in the white-supremacist practice of using brackets to identify the names of Jews when writing about them online. One of the articles Yiannopoulos published under Bannon at Breitbart praised a number of advocates of racial segregation, including Richard Spencer, who was recently seen making a Nazi salute and using a Nazi slogan at a Washington celebration of Trump’s inauguration. Breitbart readers are infamous for using Holocaust imagery to harass their online enemies.
3. Bannon’s ex-wife says he complained that he didn’t want their daughters attending school with Jewish classmates. He’s said publicly that too many Silicon Valley CEOs have Asian ancestry. He has publicly asserted the inevitability of the U.S. becoming involved in a “bloody” global war against Muslim armies. As the Huffington Post reported earlier in March, he has also repeatedly endorsed The Camp of the Saints, an abhorrent novel about black Americans, “dirty Arabs,” and rape-crazed, feces-eating “Hindus” (among others) overruning and destroying white civilization. Here are a few excerpts from the book:
A passage near one of the excerpts above refers to blacks as “rats.” I found the text to The Camp of the Saints, by the way, on a Nazi website that has a section called “The Jewish Problem.”
The chief adviser to the president—and one of the president’s biggest allies in Congress—have endorsed an iconic work of white-power propaganda that refers to black Americans as niggers and rats. What the hell is going on? When will it end?