Trump, Breitbart, and the rejection of multicultural democracy

The hostility to immigrants and Islam in the executive orders comes straight out of Breitbart.

Updated by Daniel Kreiss Jan 30, 2017, 10:30am EST

Amid reports that Trump elevated his chief strategist Steve Bannon to the National Security Council, as well as reports that he had a hand in shaping the executive orders banning immigration from several Muslim countries and refugees, understanding Bannon’s worldview has become all the more important.

That’s because Trump’s executive orders should be interpreted as the outgrowth of a coherent ideological framework and set of ideas about American democracy.

Bannon's ideology is most clearly reflected in Breitbart, the right wing nationalist site Bannon headed for a number of years.

Over the past month, I spent some time doing close readings of Breitbart articles published during and after the campaign, and came away with an overarching conclusion: For Bannon and Trump’s core group of supporters, the president’s victory was a rejection of multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, and globalization, and the triumph of white, Christian populist nationalism.

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