Michael Duffy: How Long the Truce Between Priebus and Kushner Holds Is Anyone’s Guess

DUFFY: “To freeze frame it this morning, and that’s a risky thing to do, it feels to me at least like Priebus has managed to implement a truce between Kushner and Bannon. How long this truce holds is anybody’s guess. A week, maybe two. And the reason it’s going to be hard to hold is that the ideological — some of it is about tactics and all that stuff, but some it’s just ideology. This is a White House with a broad spectrum of views ranging from Bannon and the sort of isolate — you know, nationalist view on the right, to Jared Kushner and Gary Cohn, who if — if they aren’t moderate Democrats, are certainly not ideological. So that’s at least half the American political spectrum and a little bit more. That’s much more than say Jim Baker, Ed Meese in the Reagan administration. It’s a big gap — it’s a big gulf. And they won’t be able to, until they have a decision-making process that includes everyone, they’re not going to get past this and we’ll have another blowup soon.”