Few people in American history have been savaged so viciously by the press as Donald Trump during this year’s election. But the media quickly outdid itself when the president-elect announced that Stephen Bannon would be given the coveted role of senior counsel. Without missing a beat, and undeterred by their resounding failure to stop Trump, the press quickly set upon Bannon. They called him an anti-Semite and a white nationalist. A Washington Post writer even suggested that he would serve as the Goebbels to Trump’s Hitler.