United States congresswoman with Jamaican ties joins House members petitioning Trump

That is what has happened in the case of Trump’s appointment of Stephen Bannon, the controversial executive chairman of Breitbart, the far-right website, as top political affairs adviser and strategist.

In a separate statement, Heck said the Bannon has strived to make white nationalism mainstream. But Bannon is getting attention-negative attention-and rightly so.

The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold and Frances Stead Sellers listened to a series of one-on-one interviews Bannon did with Trump on his radio show, which amounted to a kind of coaching session for how Trump should talk about issues of importance to the Alt-Right.

All the while, he has been assailed by Democrats and civil rights groups who have called him everything from a white nationalist to a racist to an anti-Semite. I can say that he’s actively supporting those people and ideologies, and he’s taking advantage of the nominal power and prominence that brings him.

So maybe that’s not the best example to use if you’re trying to defend Breitbart and Bannon against charges of bigotry and extremism. “They’re going to have to give us more than their boss, and someone like Bannon wouldn’t have even passed the confirmation process anyway”.

“Bannon’s appointment sends the wrong message to people who have engaged in those types of activities, indicating that they will not only be tolerated, but endorsed by your Administration”. Organizers are urging their social-media contacts to call their elected officials in the US Congress and voice their opposition to Bannon, who’s been accused of pushing a white supremacist agenda.

If Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., tries to move ahead despite the objections, then Democrats and some Republicans could vote down Cabinet picks until Trump relents. Boston Globe reports that 169 United States representatives have supported a letter addressed to president-elect Donald Trump.

While memes about Obama and Biden pranking Trump provided a momentary and welcome distraction, a reported increase in scary attacks on minorities has already been documented and Trump has reiterated his immigration and reproductive health plans that dial the country’s progress back an embarrassing amount. “I’m a nationalist. I’m an economic nationalist”, Bannon told the entertainment magazine. Under Mr. Bannon’s leadership, Breitbart has referred to a leading Republican who opposed your election as a “Renegade Jew,” suggested “Young Muslims in the West are a ticking time bomb”, declared that the “Confederate flag proclaims a glorious heritage”, and praised the alt-right as a “smarter” version of “old-school racist skinheads”. If Trump is serious about being a president for all Americans, he should reconsider whether an avatar of the alt-right belongs in the West Wing. The picks were immediately met with controversy, and Bannon in particular emerged as a risky choice for such a position of power.

But if Bannon is as committed to his vision of right-wing populism as he claims, it’s conceivable that Trump could actually push direct government spending for infrastructure and job creation, in defiance of his party’s fiscal libertarians.