Steve Bannon: 'Darkness is good ... Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power.'

Steve Bannon.
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Not everyone has nice things to say these days about Breitbart News' executive chairman, Steve Bannon. The freshly appointed "chief strategist" to the Donald Trump administration has been blasted as a "misogynist," as well as a "racist, [anti-Semite], and white nationalist," and there are plenty of headlines on Bannon's Breitbart that would give such accusations some credence.

But rather shockingly, no one paints a darker picture of Steve Bannon than Steve Bannon himself:

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Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.