Sebastian Gorka, a former deputy assistant to the president who followed Bannon back to Breitbart, tried to calm Trump's base in a Breitbart radio appearance Thursday.

“Really important for me to message one thing to the listeners right now,” Gorka said. “Relax. It's okay. Why? I've never met anybody — and I mean this, okay? — I've never met anybody who has the accuracy of instinct that Donald J. Trump has. He's a preternatural — he's a supernatural instinctual actor. You take him a palette of decisions … he'll look at the options, he'll choose one of them and, you know what, 98 percent of the time, it's the right option.”

The troop surge and the decisions to hire people such as national security adviser H.R. McMaster and chief economic adviser Gary Cohn presumably fall into the other 2 percent.

Speaking of McMaster and Cohn, Gorka predicted that Trump's instinct will eventually lead the president to remake his staff.

“I know right now that that instinct is going to serve him very well in the coming months, and he's going to realize who around him are not serving him with the best advice,” Gorka said. “And I'm not saying Steve or myself are going back in the building, but I assure you the people that you are most worried about — that the MAGA crowd are most worried about — will be leaving the White House sooner or later, and other individuals associated with the original platform will be coming back.”

Watch more!

This is a lot to ask of Trump's backers. Stop worrying about what's actually happening and have faith that things will change.

Bannon told the Weekly Standard something similar Aug. 18: “His natural tendency — and I think you saw it this week on Charlottesville — his actual default position is the position of his base, the position that got him elected.”

Instinct. Natural tendency. This is what the president's supporters are supposed to hang their hats on.

Maybe Gorka's prediction will come true. Or maybe he is just trying to make people feel better.

Consider another part of his radio appearance:

I came in to do national security work for Steve, a chief strategist, as a deputy to the president, but after the first executive order on the moratorium for travel into the United States, I was thrown into representing the White House in the media. And the idea that every time I went on media, somebody else had to approve it. Somebody else had to write my talking points. Somebody else kept the relationship with that individual who was booking me to themselves. We have a great team inside the White House, but I can do whatever I like. I think I broke a personal record on Monday. I think I did about 30 media hits. That's how you make the MAGA agenda happen: Get the message out there, reassure the base, and make sure that the swamp does not control the narrative. Just media alone, it's incredibly liberating not to be a government employee.

In one breath, Gorka complains about being used as a spokesman instead of a national security adviser. He presents media relations as a demotion.

Yet in the next breath, he asserts that press appearances are actually “how you make the MAGA agenda happen.”