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November 15th, 2016 
Awake Goy Progressive advocates and some politicians say selection of top adviser shows Trump ‘intends to carry racism and antisemitism straight to the White House’.
President-elect Donald Trump was facing angry demands on Monday to reverse his appointment of a man accused of fanning the flames of neo-Nazism and white supremacy as his White House chief strategist.
The selection of Stephen Bannon, the executive chairman of the far-right website Breitbart News and the CEO of Trump’s presidential campaign, deepened the fears of liberal activists that the Trump administration would embolden and enable antisemites, racists and misogynists.
The president-elect also named Reince Priebus, a more mainstream Republican figure, as chief of staff, setting up the prospect of an internal power struggle between Priebus and Bannon.
Condemnation of Trump’s decision was swift and widespread. US House minority leader Nancy Pelosi said of Bannon’s appointment: “There must be no sugarcoating the reality that a white nationalist has been named chief strategist for the Trump administration.”
Michael Keegan, president of the progressive pressure group People for the American Way, said: “By choosing Steve Bannon as chief strategist, Trump has made clear that he intends to carry the racism and antisemitism of his campaign straight into the White House. The website Bannon ran is a home for the white nationalist right that elevates racist, xenophobic, antisemitic tirades and conspiracy theories.”
Keegan called on the Republican party to denounce the move. “Congressional Republicans need to stand up and call out Trump for choosing Bannon as a senior adviser and ‘equal partner’ to Trump’s chief of staff. This isn’t about partisan politics; no one with Bannon’s record should be anywhere near the White House.”
Bannon, 62, a former naval officer and Goldman Sachs banker, will have Trump’s ear as his chief strategist and senior counsellor, it was announced on Sunday. In August he was appointed chief executive of the Trump campaign, and he was the mastermind of a stunt at the second presidential debate in which Trump held a press conference with three women who accused Bill Clinton of sexual assault.
Bannon also encouraged Trump to paint rival Hillary Clinton as part of a global conspiracy made up of the political, financial and media elite, a message that many felt carried antisemitic overtones.
Most notoriously, he is executive chairman of Breitbart News, an online linchpin of the so-called “alt-right” movement, associated with efforts to preserve “white identity”, defend “western values” and oppose multiculturalism. Its headlines have included Would You Rather Your Child had Feminism or Cancer?, Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy and There’s No Hiring Bias Against Women in Tech, They Just Suck at Interviews.
One headline described conservative commentator Bill Kristol as a “Republican spoiler, renegade Jew”. Another referred to Democratic congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who was shot in the head during a massacre five years ago, as “the gun control movement’s human shield”.
Democrats were appalled by the choice of Bannon, linking him to the Ku Klux Klan. Adam Jentleson, a spokesman for Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, said: “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.”
Congressman Adam Schiff said Bannon’s selection was unsurprising but disturbing. “His alt-right, anti-Semitic & misogynistic views don’t belong in WH,” Schiff said on Twitter.
Jon Lovett, a former speechwriter for Barack Obama, tweeted: “My stomach dropped when I saw the Bannon news, but not because I was surprised. It’s just our worst fears in the grim wide open … With a white nationalist senior advisor, Trump is not just ignoring the impact of his rhetoric – he is actively terrifying the country.”
Activists accused Trump of bringing fringe hatred into the mainstream. The Southern Poverty Law Center, an anti-hate speech watchdog, wrote in an open letter: “Bannon presided over a news empire where he, according to former staffers, ‘aggressively pushed stories against immigrants, and supported linking minorities to terrorism and crime’.
It added: “Under Bannon, Breitbart published a call to ‘hoist [the Confederate flag] high and fly it with pride’ only two weeks after the Charleston massacre when the country was still reeling from the horrors of the murders. Under Bannon, Breitbart published an extremist anti-Muslim tract where the author wrote that ‘rape culture’ is ‘integral’ to Islam. Worse perhaps, Bannon personally insinuated that African Americans are ‘naturally aggressive and violent’.
“Mr Trump, during your victory speech, you pledged to be a president for ‘all Americans’ and to ‘bind the wounds of division’ in our country. If you mean what you say, you must rescind your appointment of Bannon.”
Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said: “The appointment of Stephen Bannon as a top Trump administration strategist sends the disturbing message that anti-Muslim conspiracy theories and White nationalist ideology will be welcome in the White House. We urge President-elect Trump to reconsider this ill-advised appointment if he truly seeks to unite Americans.”
Republicans have sought to accommodate Trump after his hostile takeover of the party – former presidents George HW Bush and George W Bush called to offer congratulations – but some were fiercely critical of the Bannon appointment. Breitbart News was staunchly pro-Trump and hammered Republican leaders.
John Weaver, a party strategist who worked for Ohio governor John Kasich’s presidential campaign, tweeted: “The racist, fascist extreme right is represented footsteps from the Oval Office. Be very vigilant, America.”
Bannon’s personal conduct has also been under scrutiny. He was charged in 1996 with misdemeanor witness intimidation, and domestic violence with traumatic injury and battery. The charges were dropped after his wife, Mary Louise Piccard, did not show up at trial.
In a sworn court declaration following their divorce in 2007, Piccard said Bannon had objected to sending their twin daughters to an elite Los Angeles academy because he “didn’t want the girls going to school with Jews”. Bannon has denied saying this.
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