Liberals in this country continue to demand that President-elect Donald Trump dismiss his chief strategist, Steve Bannon. He published false news stories that promoted hate against women and minorities according to UVA Professor Nicole Hemmer. She studied Bannon for her book, Messengers of the Right.
“He’s associated with the Alt-Right, which is a collection of not only prejudices, but it also thrives on maximal confusion and disorder and chaos, and to have someone who is associated with those ideas inside the White House I think is problematic especially because I think Bannon understands how to use scapegoating for political effect, so that when things start to go badly in the administration, having him in the Oval Office, crafting a response to those dark and more difficult moments seems to me a particularly frightening thing.”
Hemmer says she’s a moderate, but she’s also a presidential scholar with the Miller Center, and she says this country’s Constitution may not protect us from threats to a tolerant and diverse society.
“For most of American history, our Constitutional system has allowed for racism, disenfranchisement, and violence. It has allowed for internment camps. It has allowed for slavery. It has allowed for so many fundamentally wrong injustices.”