Will anti-immigration be Trump's last stand?

PRESIDENT Donald Trump's nationalist fans are not a happy bunch these days. The political outsider who they had celebrated as the hardcore populist who would drain the swamp in Washington, challenge the globalist agenda of the political and business elites, punish China for its unfair trade policies, end the costly regime change military interventions in the Middle East, and build that "beautiful wall" across the US border with Mexico, is nowhere to be seen.

And what is more disturbing to the ardent Trumpists, it seems that Stephen Bannon - the former head of the far-right Breibart News and proponent of the so-called Alt-Right, a movement dedicated to advancing the nationalist revolution, who was considered to be President Trump's ideological guru and political brain, and who authored the president's addresses that outlined his plans to wreck the Washington establishment - has been forced into the "Out" column. Literally out.

In fact, according to recent reports, Mr Bannon - who was nominated as President Trump's top White House strategist - may soon be leaving his job, outflanked by Jared Kushner, a senior White House adviser and a New York business executive, who also happens to be married to Mr Trump's daughter, Ivanka, who also has an (unpaid) job in the White House. If Mr Trump were the artist Pablo Picasso, we could say that he was now leaving behind him the Bannon Period and entering the Kushner Period.