Steve Bannon is leading 'a project at war with the Constitution': law professor

Right-wing podcaster Steve Bannon was a major force in right-wing media in pushing for the ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and one legal expert believes his crusade was part of a broader campaign against the American constitutional order.

Writing in Politico, University of Chicago law professor Aziz Huq highlights the sinister aspects of Bannon's overall political goals of breaking down American political institutions.

"A gloating Steve Bannon concisely caught the underlying hard-right goal of driving Kevin McCarthy from the speakership: Dismantle people’s belief that 'government is a benefit,'" he argued. "The project is pure chutzpah: Disable Congress in plain sight, and then loudly complain that the government you’ve just wrecked doesn’t work. In its method and its aims, it is a project at war with the Constitution."

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Bannon, who once served as former President Donald Trump's chief White House strategist, has often relished in fomenting chaos within the GOP, even if it politically harms Republicans.

In one particularly notorious example, Bannon made a big push behind Roy Moore's ill-fated bid for the United States Senate, which ended with the election of Democrat Doug Jones after Moore was accused of making sexual advances toward teenage girls.