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If there's one person other than Trump whose gain a surprisingly huge amount of political power over the past year.

It's Steve Bannon.

The right-wing ideologue is most notorious for his role as former executive chairman of Breitbart News,

a website that he dubbed the platform of the alt-right, and hosts stories like these.

Bannon's candid about his lust for power, quoted as saying,

Darth Vader, Dick Cheney, Satan, that's power. As Trump's ineptitude and lack of political

ideology becomes increasingly obvious, many have noticed that there are other forces steering the

ship. While the Christian right is one sector of the right-wing establishment

guiding his policies, the alt-right has their own influence in the White House, namely through

Steve Bannon. He's been called the intellectual force behind Trump's agenda. And in just mere

months, he's propelled himself from right-wing media outlier to top propagandist of the U.S.

Empire as Trump's chief

strategist. That means Bannon is the number one person who Trump relies on to guide his

every move, just like Carl Rove served as the brain for George W. Bush.

David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard, said of Bannon, you have an individual

who's basically creating the ideological

aspects of where we're going. An ideology, ultimately, is the most important aspect of any government.

Bannon's power grab hasn't gone unnoticed. As Trump spends the majority of his time tweeting,

watching news about himself, and golfing at the lavish Mar-a-Lago

resort, there's a big void for Bannon to fill. So who is this mysterious man behind the

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