To the editor:
Despite the fantasy that apologist Jeffrey Scott Shapiro would like us to embrace, White House advisor Stephen K. Bannon is not the good guy. He’s the self-professed alt-right (which is code for white nationalist) former Breitbart publisher who proudly offered his website as a platform for haters, attracting racist followers with headlines like, “Hoist it High and Proud: The Confederate Flag Proclaims a Glorious Heritage.” (“I'm a Jewish American who worked with Steve Bannon. He is not a racist or an anti-Semite,” Opinion, March 2)
Remember, Bannon advises President Trump, whose executive order banning travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries effectively targets all brown people in America, judging by some of the reports of how it has been enforced in U.S. airports. Heck, anyone with a Santa Monica beach tan suspected of a minor crime like driving in a house coat if you’re a woman or driving too slowly on the 405 Freeway should fear persecution.
Forget due process. Rip up the U.S. Constitution. Bannon has arrived with his dystopian vision for a whiter America.
Marcy Winograd, Santa Monica
Note from KBJ: How does this woman get through the day with her paranoid fantasies?
