Breitbart News Helped Trump Win. Under Steve Bannon, It Might Also Help Him Lose

[DonViejo]

Breitbart News’ power was most in evidence during Donald Trump’s election campaign. But now Steve Bannon and his team speak to an ever-shrinking, vote-losing echo chamber.

LLOYD GROVE
12.20.17 5:00 AM ET

Breitbart News was the bright, shiny object of 2016, when the angry-populist, nationalist, right-wing web operation went all-in for Donald Trump, and the bet paid off with lavish winnings.

But as 2017 draws to a close, reality has inevitably intruded, and the tendentious news site—founded a decade ago by the late Andrew Breitbart as a rebellious antidote to what he saw as the hypocrisies of the political and media establishments—spent the first year of Trump’s volatile presidency losing its former luster.

“It’s still Breitbart, and it still helps set the narrative in the right-wing echo chamber,” conservative pundit Charlie Sykes told The Daily Beast. “But I would say that the base continues shrinking, and they’re going to be the loudest intercom within the Trump bunker as we head into 2018. They will appeal to the 30 percent of hardcore Trump supporters. They will help set the tone for the Trump defense. But, again, it is a shrinking universe.”

At its heart, argued Angelo Carusone—president of the left-leaning press-watchdog organization Media Matters for America—Breitbart is becoming “a cult of personality,” with a core message that is increasingly about celebrating Stephen K. Bannon. He’s the website’s colorful and quotable executive chairman, whose oracular pronouncements about politics and policy are frequently touted in Breitbart’s headlines.

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[Initech]

1. You know what? On second thought, keep Steve Bannon.

Let him be the face of the MAGATs. And they deserve that face to show America and the rest of the world how truly ugly they are. Someone who's as ugly as them.