Everyone's favorite scab-dappled racist White House strategist is now out of a job as of Friday, according to multiple reports, including the Washington Post.
Bannon was among President Trump's most ....er...controversial (read: overtly racist) cabinet picks, and is said to have been a driving force behind some of Trump's most egregiously...ethnocentric policy positions. Bannon's face became as synonymous with the so-called alt-right as that of Richard Spencer or Pepe the Frog. Prior to his ouster, he was editor at Breitbart, a white nationalist (oh, sorry, alt-right) propaganda website and had also worked for Goldman-Sachs and as a Hollywood film producer.
His ouster comes three (three?!) weeks after retired General John Kelly replaced Reince Priebus as President Trump's Chief of Staff, and word on the street was that he had an eye on Bannon; that he saw him as a "problem." It also follows a controversial interview Bannon gave to the liberal American Prospect, in which he called out his rivals on staff at the White House by name.
Trump himself is also said to have been so over Bannon and his polarizing ways, in part, reportedly/comically, because Bannon's likeness was featured next to that of Trump on the cover of the book Devil's Bargain — and Trump shares no spotlight.
Conservative blogger Matt Drudge tweeted that "Bannon had one hell of a run."
Progressive groups ascribed many of Trump's most racist moves to Bannon, including his Muslim travel ban, and from the beginning of (and probably prior to) his appointment, they were vocal in their concern about his intention to sow chaos (not like that happened!).
Needless, to say, the news, which caps a week in which people died because of alt-right, neo-Nazi violence and Trump said some of said neo-Nazis were "very fine people" and the left shared equal blame for what happened, was well-received among left-of-center groups.
“Steve Bannon’s exit is the first move towards unseating white supremacy in the White House," said Ben Monterroso, executive director for Mi Familia Vota, which has been outspoken in its criticism of the Trump administration, in a written statement. "This shift would not have been possible without the continued resistance of everyday people to the scary direction our country is heading in."
Splotch ya later, evil dude!
