Conservative applause is building for President-elect Trump’s choice of combative Stephen K. Bannon as his senior counselor and chief “whisperer” for the tens of millions who flooded into the polling booths on Election Day.

While the mainstream media, liberals and some establishment Republicans have whacked Bannon’s past control of Breitbart News and sometimes incendiary rhetoric, advocates of Trump’s promise to shake up Washington see Bannon as their representative.