“Chief branded a racist, fascist, misogynist”, ran the top of the page in the Times. Oh, they’re talking about Trump again. But no, this was Steve Bannon, Trump’s newly appointed chief strategist. And again, a man with no political experience. Unless you count running a right-wing web-site as ‘political experience’. The site, ‘Brietbart News’ is the digital version of the Ku Klux Klan. According to some. According to the site, it represents the ‘alt-right’. Whatever the fuck that means.

The implication is ‘alternative’, of ‘not-quite the full Adolph Hitler’, of ‘racism light’. Its the Faragesque sanitised version, the ‘nationalism in smart suits’ which makes ‘immigration’ as its main focus and then blurs it to existing immigrants. Which in America, unless you are a descendent of Cochise or the Sioux Nation, you are the ‘son’ of immigrants.

Bannon has been accused of being a ‘white supremacist’. A hateful and all-encompassing term which normally brings to mind swastika tattoos and cropped hair on death row. But it comes in many guises. Even in that of a fat ex-Navy, ex-Goldman Sacks, Seinfeld producer like Steve Bannon.

He’s also, allegedly, an anti-semite. Which is not unheard of at that end of the political spectrum; they’re pretty much anti-everything. But Trump’s dearest and favourite child, Ivanka, is now Jewish after her conversion when she married Jewish hubby.

So if we now remove the 90% press sensationalism, the liberal media over-reaction, the anti-anything-Trump sentiment currently raging across the States, you’re still left with someone in the President’s ear who is, say, just 5% Grand Imperial Wizard of the KKK. That’s ok; surely???

Trump has many more people to appoint. He promised, pre-election, that he wouldn’t use those same old political staffers that are part of the ‘old establishment’. Then he appoints Reince Priebus as his Chief of Staff. He may sound like someone who taught at Hogwarts but in fact he is as Republican establishment as you can get.

Trump doesn’t have enough family to fill the 10,000 jobs at the White House, so he has to use ‘outside people’. Obviously white people.

Its very exciting. In a scary kind of way.

Happy Tuesday

A xxxx