On Sunday, President-elect Donald J. Trump appointed Stephen Bannon as chief strategist and senior counselor for the incoming Trump administration. Bannon is the former executive chairman of Breitbart News LLC (named after Andrew Breitbart, who I’ve been very critical of), which he left in August to become chairman of the Trump campaign. For those unaware, Breitbart operates a website that traffics in white nationalism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, and conspiracy theories. It is home to the so-called “alt-right,” a predominantly secular movement of people who hold to far right ideologies. In other words, Bannon has spent the past four years as the proud overseer of a cesspool of hate and misinformation that publishes dehumanizing rhetoric and distortions of fact, and fosters scapegoating, demonization, paranoia, and extremism. He and his website have…