How to make sense of Trump v Trumpism

PROXIMITY to power does not make Washington, DC, a kindly place. Like medieval peasants watching knights joust, the yokels and churls of the political village'lobbyists, consultants or (hold your nose) journalists'may nod and gawp at the mighty, but their hope is to see one grandee thwack another into the mud.These are, therefore, heady times in the nation's capital. Two powerful men, Stephen Bannon, chief strategist to President Donald Trump, and Jared Kushner, a senior adviser, have been jousting for weeks, exchanging sword-swipes and lance-blows via leaks and briefings in the press. Still more blissfully for spectators, Mr Kushner is the president's son-in-law: the boyish, dashing heir to a family of property tycoons and Democratic donors, and husband to Mr Trump's daughter and trusted counsellor, Ivanka. His rival, Mr Bannon, is older and angrier: a grizzled champion of America First nationalism.This White House tourney is usually presented as a clash of partisan ideology or as a human melodrama. Some complaints from the Kushner camp certainly ring with dynastic alarm. The ultimate argument against Mr Bannon, one unnamed source told the
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