Quotes from Trump's new chief strategist that will terrify you
President-elect Donald Trump's announcement of "alt-right" news executive Stephen Bannon as White House chief strategist has prompted plenty of backlash.
It's not just liberals who don't like the former chairman of Breitbart News -- even conservative commentator Glenn Beck called Bannon a "nightmare" and a "terrifying man."
We took a look at some of the things Bannon, who is celebrated by the white nationalist movement, has said over the years. Plenty of them are offensive, so consider this a warning.
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On why liberals hate conservative women like Anne Coulter and Michele Bachmann
" [T]hese women cut to the heart of the progressive narrative. That’s why there are some unintended consequences of the women’s liberation movement. That, in fact, the women that would lead this country would be pro-family, they would have husbands, they would love their children. They wouldn’t be a bunch of dykes that came from the Seven Sisters schools up in New England." -- 2011 radio interview with Political Vindication Radio
On sending his girls to an elite academy in Los Angeles
He "didn't want the girls going to school with Jews ... He said he doesn’t like Jews and that he doesn’t like the way they raise their kids to be ‘whiney brats.'" -- The Guardian, from his wife in court documents filed in 2007. Bannon has denied saying it.
On what keeps him going
"Fear is a good thing. Fear is going to lead you to take action." -- Richmond-Times Dispatch
On furthering Tea Party goals
"I’m a Leninist ... Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment." -- The Daily Beast
On the Shirley Sherrod video and firing
"...that scalp still has bloody flesh on it!!!!" -- email exchange after the 2010 incident. The email surfaced in a libel suit brought by Sherrod against Breitbart News.
On Breitbart News
"We're the platform for the alt-right." --Mother Jones
"We call ourselves 'the Fight Club.' You don’t come to us for warm and fuzzy." -- The Washington Post
“We think of ourselves as virulently anti-establishment, particularly ‘anti-’ the permanent political class. We say Paul Ryan was grown in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation." -- The Washington Post
"We hire people who are freaks" and "They don’t have social lives."-- The Washington Post
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On the Occupy Movement
"After making the Occupy movie, when you finish watching the film, you want to take a hot shower ... You want to go home and shower because you’ve just spent an hour and fifteen minutes with the greasiest, dirtiest people you will ever see." -- The Atlantic
On his favorite group of Republicans, the GOP
"What we need to do is bitch-slap the Republican Party." -- The Atlantic
"Leadership are all c*nts" and "We should just go buck wild." -- The Daily Beast, from an email exchange.
On charges of anti-Semitism from former Breitbart editor-at-large Ben Shapiro
"Are there anti-Semitic people involved in the alt-right? Absolutely. Are there racist people involved in the alt-right? Absolutely. But I don't believe that the movement overall is anti-Semitic." -- Mother Jones. Shapiro quit Breitbart News after Trump's then campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, allegedly assaulted Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields. He accused Bannon of turning Breitbart "into Trump’s personal Pravda."
For even more ridiculousness, be sure to read some Breitbart headlines, such as "Bill Kristol: Republican Spoiler, Renegade Jew" and the charmer above. For the very brave, jump into the comment threads.
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Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.
