"Mr. Trump has hired a Henry Higgins to work on his comportment. Paul Manafort is Mr. Trump’s new campaign chief is an old-guard Republican strategist whose ambition is to turn this Eliza Doolittle into a candidate more acceptable to decent society, in time for the general election. He rolled out his Pygmalion project with a PowerPoint presentation behind closed doors at the RNC retreat in Florida. “The part he’s been playing is evolving,” Mr. Manafort assured the Republicans. Mr. Trump doesn’t really mean it when he says things like he’ll deport 11 million immigrants, or block Muslims from entering the country, or kill terrorists’ children, or when he maligns women. He’s doing all that, Mr. Manafort suggested, to win the primaries; come the general election, Mr. Trump will bloom into his truer (and presumably kinder and gentler) self."
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At www.nytimes.com
