text: If Bannon and Stephen Miller and their toadies were fired from the Trump administration and replaced by other mainstream Republicans, I believe that the policies would moderate.  Trump is basically a dumb demagogue who apparently agrees with the last thing that someone tells him.  So if the last person who tells him something is McMaster, then perhaps we don't get the Muslim ban.  
  
  And I think Burke is a fool but Bannon is using him for his own purposes.  Burke and his toadies were behind some of the dumb stunts against the pope over the last few weeks like the posters.  I don't think that Burke will be effective nor do I think that Bannon thinks he will (although Bannon wouldn't mind being rid of that meddlesome priest.)  Bannon wants Francis distracted by internal enemies so that Francis cannot do things like speak out against Trump policies or condemn the alt-right as anti-Christian.