Steve Bannon

Bannon's Threat: An Army of Christian Nationalists

by Anthea Butler

As conservative churches feel free to intervene directly in politics, will the midterms be swayed by an army of evangelical poll-watchers and door-knockers? 

The Trump-Bannon Feud Sheds Light on the Direction of the Far Right

Nicole Hemmer explains to Post columnist Greg Sargent that Bannon represents an explicitly anti-democratic strain of nationalism that is separate from the political allegiance of many conservatives to Donald Trump. 

Executive Privilege was out of Control Before Steve Bannon Claimed It

by Timothy Noah

Perhaps Steve Bannon is doing a favor for the cause of government accountability by showing the outlandishness of the entire doctrine, which has managed to pass from Dwight Eisenhower's strategy for stonewalling Joseph McCarthy to a hallowed totem of the out-of-control presidency.

Will Homeschool Moms be Steve Bannon's Latest Political Shock Troops?

Bannon's call to parents to withdraw their children from school to protest "Critical Race Theory" echoes the infamous 1974 Kanawha County, West Virginia Textbook Wars. 

Steve Bannon Indicted for Fraud Related to Build the Wall Fundraiser

The former Trump campaign chief and policy adviser was indicted for fraud related to a fundraising campaign that claimed to support construction of a wall on the US-Mexico border. 

Steve Bannon: Martin Luther King Would Be Proud of Donald Trump

“If you look at the policies of Donald Trump, OK, anybody—Martin Luther King would be proud of him and what he's done for the black and hispanic community for jobs.”

‘I’m fascinated by Mussolini’

by Nicholas Farrell

Steve Bannon on fascism, populism and everything in between

Steve Bannon says historian Walter Russell Mead was the inspiration for hanging Jackson’s portrait in the Oval Office

Mead has become the favorite Trump whisperer for everyone from Steve Bannon to Tom Cotton.

Bannon’s Game: White Supremacist takeover of GOP

by Juan Cole

Steve Bannon’s trash-talking of the Trump’s in the interviews he gave in Michael Wolff’s new book, “Fire and Fury,” are not political suicide and not just pique. Bannon wants to take over the Republican Party.

Steve Bannon Vows ‘War’ on His Own Party. It Didn’t Work So Well for F.D.R.

Bannon has declared a “season of war” to push out problematic Republicans in midterm elections just as Roosevelt tried to do to balky Democrats. But Roosevelt’s purge backfired.

Ron Radosh says Steve Bannon Is Winning With the Old Communist Party Playbook

Bannon argues he is fighting the establishment by backing candidates like Roy Moore, but like the optimistic Communists of the early 1940s he’ll likely find that his time for gaining power is shorter than he believes.

Fact Check: Steve Bannon’s Bad History

by Douglas A. Irwin

Immigration and rapid industrialization—not tariffs—made the 19th-century economy great.

Steve Bannon has a Nazi Problem

“Bannon sees the Pepes as kind of like trolls, and not like the Nazis like Richard Spencer and David Duke,” said one person who spoke to Bannon. “Everybody’s kind of struggling with it.”

Fact Check: Were the 1800s Steve Bannon's Kind of America?

In an interview with CBS's 60 Minutes, Bannon said, "Economic nationalism is what this country was built on."

The Trump team is obsessing over Thucydides, the ancient historian who wrote a seminal tract on war

Steve Bannon, H.R. McMaster, James Mattis – they all love Thucydides.

To the American Colonists, Steve Bannon, Sean Spicer & the Rest of the Trump Crowd Would Seem Familiar Characters

by Andrew Wehrman

The way they’re being depicted today resonates.

The Crackpot Theories of Stephen Bannon’s Favorite Authors

by David Greenberg

The problems with the predictive schematic history of the sort laid out in The Fourth Turning, the book Bannon loves, start with their determinism.

Bannon’s Views Can Be Traced to a Book That Warns, ‘Winter Is Coming’

The book, “The Fourth Turning,” a 1997 work by two amateur historians, Neil Howe and William Strauss, lays out a theory that American history unfurls in predictable, 80-year cycles of prosperity and catastrophe. And it foresees catastrophe right around the corner.

So where did Trump get the idea that he’s Andrew Jackson?

It was from Steve Bannon.

Steve Bannon in College: Grateful Dead Fan, ‘Jerry Brown Liberal,’ and History Nerd

Steve Bannon the college senior was a well-liked liberal history buff who adored Arnold Toynbee.