Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid might be retiring in January after five terms, but it looks like the 76-year-old former amateur boxer plans to keep swinging until the very end. Immediately after the election, he issued an angry missive castigating those who normalize the unapologetically bigoted platform on which Donald Trump ran for president, and then doubled way, way down when Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway went on TV to toss off some utterly nonsensical legal threats against Reid for having the audacity to exercise his First Amendment right to free speech. This was a profoundly ill-advised statement coming from a representative of the man who is about to be responsible for enforcing the Constitution, and Reid rightfully excoriated her for it.

But I digress. This weekend, to the delight of actual members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party, Trump tapped noted white-nationalism enthusiast Steve Bannon to be a chief White House strategist. Of the many people who are correctly calling this morally repugnant and utterly terrifying, Reid issued perhaps the strongest rebuke of Bannon's appointment yet, thanks to the quintessential 2016 medium: Medium. Hear it from user @SenatorReid (emphasis his):

Healing the wounds he inflicted will take more than words. Talk is cheap and Tweets are cheaper. Healing the wounds is going to take action. So far, rather than healing these wounds, Trump’s actions have deepened them. In his first official act, Trump appointed a man who is seen as a champion of whitesupremacyas the #1 strategist in his White House. By placing a champion of White Supremacists a step away from the Oval Office, what message does Trump send to the young girl who woke up Wednesday afraid to be a woman of color in America? It is certainly not a message of healing.

If Trump is serious about seeking unity, the first thing he should do is rescind his appointment of Steve Bannon. As long as a champion of racial division is a step away from the Oval Office, it will be impossible to take Trump’s efforts to heal the nation seriously.

And then the mic drop (emphasis mine):

So I say to Donald Trump: take responsibility. Rise to the dignity of the office instead of hiding behind your Twitter account.

Oof. No response yet from Night-Tweeting Trump yet, but Reid is right. If Trump really wants to be everyone's president, Bannon's appointment is an exceptionally bad start. It's on Reid and his Democratic colleagues to call out things like this to help Americans gauge the president-elect's sincerity as quickly as possible.