Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, cofounder of the alt-right, alternative-reality site Breitbart, who didn’t usually speak to journalists, gave an interview to The New York Times, specifically to explain the new rules of the game. “I want you to quote this,” he said. “The media here is the opposition party. They don’t understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.” His counsel to journalists was that they “should shut up and listen for a while.” Trump seized the phrase “the opposition party” and later upgraded it to the
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