Steve Bannon saw populism’s and nationalism’s promise, but ignored their problems

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Steve Bannon, who was ousted from the White House on Friday, was the man who convinced Donald Trump he was onto something — that beneath Trump’s inchoate ideas and jarring dispositions there was a philosophy.

Why did Trump sometimes sound like a Republican and other times sound like a Democrat, but most of the time sound like neither? Why did no ideological framework fit the bombastic billionaire?

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