Last summer the Insiders looking on figured Donald Trump was going to crash and burn – but after Trump started winning primaries they moved in and after the first round of knife fighting Corey Lewbanowski was out and Paul Manafort was in charge.

Which should have been the end of the story; once an Insider has power no one can pry it out of his hands.

But Donald Trump’s nothing if not unorthodox so, after the Republican Convention, another round of knife fighting broke out and this time when the cutting was done Paul Manafort was out and Steve Bannon was in.

Bannon’s taken charge of the direst political mess any Republican has seen since Nixon burgled Watergate: Hillary’s on a roll. Trump’s in a ditch. Hillary’s got money. Trump doesn’t.  And to win Bannon’s got to find a way to prove electing a Twitter obsessed billionaire will Make America Great Again while electing Crooked but Predictable Hillary will ruin it.