“Authoritarianism appeals, simply, to people who cannot tolerate complexity: there is nothing intrinsically ‘left-wing’ or ‘right-wing’ about this instinct at all. It is anti-pluralists. It is suspicious of people with different ideas. It is allergic to fierce debates. Whether those who have it ultimately derive their politics from Marxism or nationalism is irrelevant. It is a frame of mind, not a set of ideas.”

“Under [William Barr], the Department of Justice stands ready to advance any pro-Trump policy, justifying it on the basis of a blinkered, tenuous view of the facts and the law, or maybe just Barr’s personal ideological intuitions.”

Being indicted for fraud is bad enough, but it’s much worse when you scratch slightly below his surface. Bannon has said on film that when he thinks of Auschwitz, he sees it as a tribute to German Engineering.  Is that what you see when you see the gates of Auschwitz/Birkenau?