text: Hmmm, maybe it's just me, but this isn't one of Brook's better columns.  He treats Bannon as if he's just some  sort of  traditional George Wallace/Pat Buchanan right-wing populist.
  In fact Bannon is a believer in the most extreme sort of tribal, "us against them fight to the death" Social Darwinist ideology.  It's all black and white, Good vs. Evil-- and the Good are white Christian Americans.
  Not thinking it possible that Brooks himself harbors such views, I can only conclude his "Let Bannon Be Bannon" is satire.  I think.