How Steve Bannon Helped Shape Conservative Politics In America

Trump's top political adviser's time in the White House was short-lived. But his political influence endured.

He's been called the most dangerous political operative in the U.S., the MAGA mastermind, the manipulator-in-chief. Although Steve Bannon has never held an elected office, his influence on modern conservatism has been seismic.  

"I think that he has introduced a methodological recklessness to the American right in particular, and perhaps the global right in general," author Benjamin R. Teitelbaum said. 

But his path to alt-right stardom wasn't a straight line.