Steve Bannon stokes chaos in the Republican Party and fires up his far-right base

Steve Bannon during a recording of his War Room podcast in a studio in the basement of his house in Washington, DC on Wednesday. Photograph: Erin Schaff/New York Times Last Wednesday morning, two Republicans who hours earlier had toppled Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House made a well-worn trek to a 19th-century brick town house a few blocks away from the Capitol and entered the cluttered sanctuary of Steve Bannon's recording studio. Matt Gaetz of Florida, the instigator of the rebellion, and Nancy Mace of South Carolina, one of seven other Republican defectors, huddled with Bannon for a morning…