Wow, not sure I belong in a debate of this intellectual rigour!
Trump is Hitler's secret love child and claig a fascist three eyed frog with halitosis.
There you go, argument won. :D
The reason the media is throwing so much mud, especially in Sessions direction is rather simple. As I've previously mentioned it is Congress that is responsible for immigration. Trouble is there are already myriad laws against illegal immigration, it is just that Obama chose not to enforce them. Hence in Sessions they see an Attorney General who is likely to uphold the current law rather than ignoring it.
This includes being able to withhold Federal funding from cities or towns which shelter illegals, the so called safe spaces. Oddly these are almost uniformly Democrat controlled.
As Nigel would put it, the more flak you get the closer to the target you are.
Also Bannon is rather misunderstood. Whilst there are always going to be numpties who will attack anyone like a wave of zombies muttering fascist his philosophy, and the message his news outlets seek to convey is that the West is in the midst of a war against radical Islam. Destroying the elites and governments who hush this up is his primary goal in life.
Bear in mind that Americans look in horror at the state of Sweden and ourselves in particular. The Swedish rape crisis, Rotherham, Cologne sex attacks, Charlie Hebdo, and all the other numerous terrorist atrocities. It's difficult to stress how seriously they take this, even to the point of ex Army officers wondering why we don't raze Muslim neighbourhoods with heavy artillery. People forget how willing Americans are to defend their faith.
In constantly playing footage of a completely unconnected rally they are trying to undermine the so called alt right, though frankly they are several years too late. They concentrated on David Duke during the campaign claiming his popularity was increasing and that he could get elected to the Senate. In the end he came 7th..
Also, a bit technical but here's a good explanation of why Europe's banks are in serious trouble..
www.cobdencentre.org/2016/11/the-european-banking-can-nears-the-end-of-the-road/
Despite dodgy accounting they still had to rig the actual stress tests.
Why is this important? Well I don't get the impression that the Donald is a fan of the EU and his chief strategist is certainly of the impression that EU governments have been suppressing news stories of Muslim extremism for some years. I doubt Farage independently came up with his monumental pisstake about being their ambassador to the EU, simple fact is he can't be as he isn't an American citizen. Bannon believes that the Judeo Christian values were applied by governments and corporations in the bygone days ( slightly rose tinted in my view but a somewhat valid point) and basically that the current holders of high level positions are cretins of the highest order who have betrayed their populations. Therefore he takes a Leninist approach, that these institutions have to be destroyed.
Which if you are one of the very numerous European governments which lined up to denounce Trump and who are likely to be facing yet more economic woes in the near future is rather bad news.
I find it pretty likely that they'll turn their resources about face to covertly supporting Wilders and Le Pen and frankly any other measures which they feel will topple the established order in Europe.
Buckle your seatbelts...