After inviting Steve Bannon to the the New Yorker Festival, the magazine’s boss David Remnick then disinvited Bannon because a few leftists scheduled to appear with Bannon onstage threatened to not show-up, ostensibly because Bannon is objectionable, but really, as Morning Joe pointed out today in a spasm of lucidity, the leftists are afraid to engage, afraid that their political philosophy will be exposed as the socialist antiAmericanism which is being rejected by the U. S. electorate.