I wouldn’t know Steve Bannon if he bit me, but the Bannon I’m reading about in my mostly anti-Trump Twitter feed doesn’t much resemble the guy in this Bloomberg profile.

Bannon seems to understand that his Government Accountability Institute would be worthless if it used the same tone as his Bretbart.com operation did. A presidential campaign that loses fewer than 40 states will also need to have a different rhetorical style from that of Breitbart.com. We should be open to the possibility that Bannon might approve of his writers’ producing demented rants about Paul Ryan bowing his knee to the forces of populist nationalism, while simultaneously telling his presidential candidate to adopt a (somewhat) more inclusive style. That isn’t a prediction. It is just a possibility to consider.

I would be more worried about whether Trump can stand to spew George W. Bush–style pablum about leaving no communities behind. My guess is that this is more Kellyanne Conway than Steve Bannon — and there is a reason why this kind of generic Republican rhetoric persists — but how long before Trump finds this kind of talk unbearably boring to himself and his live audiences?

(Full disclosure: I’m NeverTrump.)