(2016-08-17) Steve Bannon Trumps New Ceo Hints At His Master Plan

Exclusive: Steve Bannon, Trump’s New C.E.O., Hints at His Master Plan. In some sense, the organization is also the first significant American outlet to articulate and represent, in a large-scale way, a new philosophy of nationalism and populism that has found strong purchase in American society, and in many other parts of the globe

Breitbart News is as much about its community as it is its own reporting

Bannon, not surprisingly, has critics, even within the movement he leads. A former employee of Breitbart described him to me as “Donald Trump but more intelligent.” He didn’t mean it as a compliment, and was instead referring to the opportunism, the personal vindictiveness, and the lack of a moral center that have become defining characteristics of Trump.

Breitbart unexpectedly died of heart failure, in 2012, at the age of 43

Bannon is not fully representative of his own audience. A graduate of Harvard Business School, who enjoyed a successful career launched at Goldman Sachs.

In the wake of Andrew Breitbart’s death, Bannon quickly grabbed the reins of power and he continued to build the network in the spirit of its founder. He is likely the most potent conservative news executive in a post–Roger Ailes landscape

Breitbart has given voice to millions of mostly working-class white voters who are anguished over the loss of status, the loss of certainty, and the diminishment of a long-cherished way of life—and who tend to blame Congress, the mainstream media, big business, and the Republican establishment for these misgivings

To understand the relationship between Trump and Bannon, you need to start with Andrew Breitbart himself.

Starting in 2007, after a stint at the Drudge Report, he launched a series of Web sites.