After the AHCA debacle, you can expect Christie and other GOP bigwigs to call on Trump to save himself by replacing the Not Ready for Prime Time Players around him with real professionals. It won’t happen, for the following reasons:
- It was the “professionals,” not the amateurs, who failed over AHCA;
- It is far from clear that the “professionals” have the ability to paper over the very real policy differences within the GOP. After all, Boehner couldn’t do it; and
- Trump isn’t the kind of person who is going to permit the “professionals” to turn him into a figurehead.
Get used to it: given Trump’s views on management, there will be constant churn within his administration, but there will be no James Baker moment. What you see today is what you get.