For years, Steve Bannon has been ripping holes in America’s democratic institutions — demonizing the press, spreading lies and hatred of immigrants, revving up an insurrection, flouting the law.

Until now, he’s always gotten away with it. Indicted on a charge of defrauding donors to a private group that claimed to be raising money for Donald Trump’s border wall, he scored a presidential pardon. Accused of registering to vote in Florida, where he did not live, he managed to avoid prosecution.