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The real question, of course, was how Bannon, the fuck-the-system populist, had ever come to think that he might get along with Donald Trump, the use-the-system-to-his-own-advantage billionaire.

On the other hand, constant hysteria did have one unintended political virtue. If every new event canceled out every other event, like some wacky news-cycle pyramid scheme, then you always survived another day.

[Utenriksminister] Tillerson would merely become yet another example of a subordinate who believed that his own abilities could somehow compensate for Trump's failings.

[Pence] was also perceived as the weakest vice president in decades, and [ . . . ] an empty suit who was useless in the daily effort to help restrain the president and stabilize the West Wing (dvs. presidentens stab).

Trump didn't read. He didn't really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist. Some believe that for practical purposes he was no more than semiliterate.

Almost everybody in the campaign, still an extremely small outfit, thought of themselves as a clear-eyed team, as realistic about their prospects as perhaps any in politics. The unspoken agreement among them: not only would Donald Trump not be president, he should probably not be. Conveniently, the former conviction meant nobody had to deal with the latter issue.