“Why bother?” one longtime adviser said. “He’s the boss.”
With Republicans worried about the midterms, aides increasingly “humor his whims.” A donor summed up the dynamic: “What he wants, he gets.”
Yet insiders reject the idea that Trump is fading. “Discount Trump at your peril,” one adviser said, arguing that Trump will remain “the dominant political figure even after his term ends.”
Source: Axios
Axios reports that many Republicans and White House aides have largely stopped trying to restrain Trump, even as they increasingly question his political instincts.
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