Democrats aim to make Steve Bannon a scarier Karl Rove
Lawmakers increasingly are casting the ex-Brietbart chief as the nefarious force behind the Trump White House.
By Kyle Cheney
02/05/17 07:25 AM EST
Democrats spent years turning George W. Bush strategist Karl Rove into a bogeyman whose mere mention sent liberals' blood boiling. Now, members of Congress are doing the same to top Trump hand Steve Bannon — but in much darker terms.
Increasingly, Democratic lawmakers are labeling the former Breitbart chief a "white supremacist" who has no business at the highest echelons of American power.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) used the term Thursday, and several Democratic members quickly grabbed the baton. It's a sharp escalation in rhetoric that coincides with Bannon's outsized influence in the early days of the Trump White House. And those same members are casting Bannon as a shadow president.
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