The remaking of Donald Trump is well underway. His surrogates and other apologists spend their time explaining that the words Trump uses don't mean what they always mean. Meanwhile, the party grandees are taking a different tack. Their strategy is to convince party loyalists and other gullible voters not to worry because Trump will be under their control. They will try to teach him, like some parret, to say words more acceptable to those they are attempting to deceive. Both Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell deplore Trump's latest pronouncements but suggest all he has to do is say it differently. Along these lines, Ryan is busily setting forth agendas for the House of Representatives. These are the sort of things that a president should be laying out. Their scheme is somewhat transparent. They hope to convince voters that Trump will be a mere figurehead, and that Ryan and McConnell will act as a sort of Edgar Bergen to Trump's Mortimer Snerd.
One may think that Trump will be somewhat less tractable than these two think. The bigger question is whether voters will be as gullible as they hope. The jury is pretty clearly out on that one.
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