NYT: Like Henry VIII’s Thomas Cromwell, Trump’s Steve Bannon Is a ‘Brilliant and Cunning’ Strategist ‘Trying to Destroy the Existing Order’

In his latest op-ed, New York Times columnist Timothy Egan explores the similarities between President Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon and King Henry VIII’s chief minister Thomas Cromwell, whom Bannon jokingly compared himself to when he told an interviewer last year, “I am Thomas Cromwell in the court of the Tudors.”