TWO days after he ceased to be President Donald Trump's chief strategist, Steve Bannon explained why he had welcomed The Economist to his house on Capitol Hill for a chat. "You're the enemy," he said, adding disdainfully: "You support a radical idea, free trade. I mean it, that's a radical idea." As he returns to his former job, running Breitbart News, a bomb-throwing right-wing website, Mr Bannon wants to make clear that he still loves a scrap. "In the White House I had influence," he says several times during a long discussion. "At Breitbart, I had power."
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