If you were worried about Donald Trump, wait until you meet his new chief strategist Steve Bannon

The ex-Breitbart Executive Chairman has been accused of being sexist, racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic and now he is the second most important person in the White House

Campaign chief executive Stephen Bannon (centre) at Trump's victory party (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty)

Are you a feminist? Well that makes you “less marriageable, more crass and generally just unpleasant to be around”.

Are you on birth control? Well in that case you’re “unattractive and crazy.”

Are you a young Muslim living in the West? Then you’re “increasingly sympathising with radicals.”

Those are all headlines on Breitbart a “politically conservative” American news website, which had Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s new chief strategist and senior counsellor, as its executive chairman for the last four years.

While we are not yet clear on how Trump will divide the duties between Steve Bannon and his other appointment, Reince Priebus as his Chief of Staff, but what we do know is that they will “work as equal partners to transform the federal government.”

What we also know for certain is his track record on Breitbart, the publication he worked for as Executive Chairman, for up until a few months ago. Ben Shapiro, a former editor at the organisation described Bannon as a “legitimately sinister figure” and one that “many former employees of Breitbart News are afraid of”. Shapiro went further and claimed he was “a vindictive, nasty figure, infamous for verbally abusing supposed friends and threatening enemies”. He eventually resigned from his position and claimed that under Bannon’s stewardship the website had forgotten what it stood for and had become Trump’s “personal Pavda”.

Defying critics, Bannon managed to turn Breitbart into one of the most-read conservative web outlets in the English speaking world and in doing so became the bastion of the “alt-right” movement: the foundation of which is the belief that “white identity” is under attack from globalisation and multiculturalism.

According to one article “the alt-right believe that some degree of separation between peoples is necessary for a culture to be preserved.” Earlier this year the website published a video claiming that “Europe is dying” and commented that the German government had “populated the nation with foreigners”. It’s also not surprising that the news outlet focused its attention on Muslims. In January Breitbart published a piece titled “Political correctness protects Muslim rape culture”, written by Tom Tancredo, a former member of the House of Representatives. The piece warns that “Muslim rape culture is not a dirty little secret” instead “it is widely recognised as integral to Islam as taught in the Koran and the Hadith.” Bannon’s Breitbart created a platform where this type of anti-immigrant, sexist and racist rhetoric blossomed.

Following his tenure as editor at large Breitbart, Bannon went on to become Trump’s campaign chairman and arguably his upfront and say-it-like-you-see-it style seized the day for the Republican in the final stages of the election campaign. Now this man is one of the most powerful and influential people in the free world. If you were worried about what the Trump administration would look like, this appointment should make you very scared.