Great summary. I’m not ashamed to admit I never even knew who he was until he joined Trump’s campaign, since Rush Limbaugh has admitted the same thing. And he seemed to be a media sensation more than anything, because they like to use him as a wide brush to paint all conservatives as white supremists. Hopefully he will soon slip back into the obscurity from which he came, but not if he can help it I’m sure.
I daresay you and Rush are not alone. Bannon was hardly a household name pre-Trump administration.
I followed Bannon’s career bc I had been very interested in Andrew Breitbart. Bannon was big on promoting personalities, as a way of running Breitbart. He first tried it with some guy named Brandon Darby, who fizzled like a dud. Next Bannon hyped the flaming gay guy, Milo Yiannopoulus. He had more success with him, until the recording surfaced of Milo speaking well of man-boy homosexual relationships.
I didn’t care for Bannon’s pro-homosexual leanings. I caught a lot of flak for it at the time. But a person without a stable moral foundation will not himself be stable, and Bannon bore this out.