Quotes from Trump's new chief strategist

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.

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 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

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."

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Breitbart News’ Worst Headlines

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has hired Breitbart News executive chairman Stephen Bannon as his new campaign chief executive.

Media Matters looks back at the some of Breitbart News’ most outrageous and over-the-top headlines during Bannon’s tenure:

https://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/08/1 … nes/212467

Axl said he would vote Obama in the last election. Although he also said he rarely votes since California is a sea of blue.

A close friend of mine and I watched the GOP debates and loved every minute of it. So yes there is that part of me that would enjoy it, and I do believe it's going to happen. But for the sake of my country I hope we don't burn everything to the ground in the process.

Sam Harris had a great analogy on his podcast the other night. He said if you were in a plane and the pilot suddenly died, you would hope that the person now landing the plane (with zero experience) would do so successfully. It would all be in the passengers best interest to do so.

There are so many fucking variables with this guy it is almost impossible to know what is going to happen. Will the reality of his job paired with his constant need for the public's adoration create a centrist who finds honest to goodness solutions? Or will the reality of this job expose an emperor with no clothes, no true ideology and allow the GOP to treat him like a puppet to push through their agendas? We're not going to know until we get rolling.

And just because Trump won, doesn't mean the fractured Republican party is healed now. There are various fractions who have completely different visions for the party moving forward. At some point he's going to tangle with somebody. Also this has been an obstructionist party for the last 8 years, not a governing party. I'm very curious to see how a splintered group decides to actually do their job for once. So yea, there certainly is some schadenfreude potential watching this...but I also hope the plane is landed safely on the runway.

As I said, this has absolutely nothing to do with the CRA which originated in the 70's. Your original claim.

This also has nothing to do with hedge funds setting up mortgage companies that focused on sub primes, then reselling to be repackaged by Wall Street and then bet against by the same people selling them. None of that had anything to do with Fannie Mae. None.

My original thoughts were that he wouldn't make it the full first term. However his ego alone would NEVER allow him to resign. No way, no how.

I could easily see him doing something stupid and getting impeached, but that would require Congress to act. Good luck with that.

If somebody kills him (a distinct possibility given the tension, which I believe will continue the entire time he's in office) then we'd be left with high octane homophobic Pence and the creepiest cabinet ever, chock full of Alt right conspiracy theory nutjobs, lobbyists and Trump sycophants.

One thing is clear to me though, the guy never expected to get this job. I don't think he ever thought he'd win the GOP nomination, much less the General. He's now going to feel the weight of the world on his shoulders, and I highly doubt he was ready for this. Perhaps it will humble him a bit.