We'll see how this plays out, but it looks like Bannon will not go quietly as Priebus and Scaramucci did.
A look at the Breitbart website this afternoon makes it appear that the bond between it and Bannon is as strong as ever:
This article about Ann Coulter's tweets points to the reason why Trump kept Bannon on. To fire him would be to give the Beltway elites the scalp that they demanded, and in doing so to alienate him from the most energetic element that make up his bas
It looks like this is another win for John Kelly, but this is a pretty fluid, dynamic situation. And it looks like now that Bannon is gone, the establishment types pretty much have isolated Trump in the building, but what about his phone lines?
Any sane person, and I believe Kelly, as conservative as he might be, is sane, knows how dangerous a loose cannon Trump is, and if I were Kelly, I would think that the only hope for the survival of the Trump presidency is essentially to contain him, and hope that some kind of governing structure can be developed with Trump's having minimum impact on it.
This could work because Trump doesn't seem to have real any interest in governing, but it's not likely to succeed because Trump really is crazy, and it's more likely that more stories are going to come out about Trump's stability, which will lead eventually to his removal by the 25th Amendment if all else fails. I don't know what the timing will be; it might have to wait for indictments to come down from the Mueller probe, but I don't see how Trump survives.
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