Capitulation Nation: Steve Bannon's Media Rehabilitation Shows the Press Is Surrendering Without a Fight

One of the challenges for the media in covering Donald Trump’s presidency — much like the challenge of covering his campaign — will lie in avoiding the normalization of his more outré policies and personnel appointments. This is no small task when almost everything the man says and does is calibrated for outrageousness and the destruction of long-held norms in politics.

Trump’s appointment of Steve Bannon, his campaign CEO and former head of Breitbart News, to the position of chief White House strategist and senior counselor two weeks ago presented an early test. Bannon may be an indispensable part of Trumpworld, but Breitbart’s years of catering to the neo-Nazis of the “alt-right” meant a perceived champion of white supremacy would be working a few feet away from the most powerful office in the world....
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