How Steve Bannon’s War Room is shaping Republican narratives: ‘We get on an idea and we drive it’

The 70-year-old former Trump White House strategist has hosted a number of future GOP leaders and folds in absolutely anyone willing to listen'

It is not your typical man cave. Christian iconography. A bust of Julius Caesar. A painting of John Paul Jones, the revolutionary war naval officer. A book, The Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes, sitting on a crowded desk. A sign resting on the mantelpiece declares: There are no conspiracies, but there are no coincidences."

Welcome to the War Room, where the classical, contemporary and conspiratorial nourish Steve Bannon's grand vision of himself as a historical figure. Each day he holds court in this basement on Capitol Hill to plot not only Donald Trump's return to power but the next American revolution. Screens, microphones and other podcasting paraphernalia sit above piles of books and newspapers, namely the Financial Times and New York Times.