Steve Bannon is the most powerful person in the Trump White House. That should terrify us.

"Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s senior strategist, is emerging as the most powerful person in the White House. That’s not the problem; somebody has to occupy that perch. The problem is what Bannon wants to do with it. He has spectacularly grand ambitions, to transform our country and its place in the world. His is an ethno-nationalist vision in which America leads a clash of civilizations, and there’s little reason to think he’d be at all displeased if that clash engulfed the entire globe. There’s also little reason to think that Donald Trump would mind."

read article by PAUL WALDMAN