The emergence of a potential deal between Donald Trump and new best friends “Chuck and Nancy” has enraged the most vocal faction of the president’s voters. “Trump base is blown up, destroyed, irreparable, and disillusioned beyond repair,” Iowa Congressman Steve King lamented on Twitter, after Trump confirmed the outlines of an agreement to protect undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children. “No promise is credible.” Breitbart, the “nationalist” news site headed by former White House strategist Steve Bannon, derided the president as “Amnesty Don.” Some Trump voters even began burning their “Make America Great Again” hats in protest.

Still, the far-right hysteria over the president’s latest flirtation with bipartisanship may be overstated. The day after news broke of Trump’s DACA deal, hammered out over a chummy dinner with Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, the rest of the Republican Party seemed to have skipped denial, anger, bargaining, and depression, and gone straight to acceptance. “I know there’s a hue and cry from around the country as relates to what happened last night—I’m sorry,” Republican Senator Bob Corker told The Washington Post. “I’ve been here 10 years and eight months now, there’s been way, way too much gridlock here, and if the president can sit down with leaders of the other party and bring consensus on an issue like he did last night, I’m all for it.” House Speaker Paul Ryan cautiously endorsed the contours of a deal with G.O.P. buy-in, because “our members support President Trump.”

Without a Democratic president in power to rage against, it’s not surprising that the general response from Republicans has been tacit approval. While the rebellion on the far right attracted headlines, polling suggests that nearly 7 in 10 Trump voters support allowing Dreamers to stay in the United States. As The Washington Post noted, conservative leaders are wary of breaking with the president over an arrangement generally favored by the mainstream of the party. “The jury is still out on whether the base starts to leave him. And I’m not sure what the truth is,” King, who was sharply critical of the president, told the Post. “If this stands and we end up with amnesty, the base that was pulled together because of immigration will start to peel off in significant ways.” The implication is that the Bannon-Breitbart wing of the party might not be as influential with the president as it sometimes seems.

Part of Trump’s newfound interest in bipartisanship is the result of his dissatisfaction with Ryan and Mitch McConnell, whom he finds dry and difficult, respectively, sources close to the president told Politico. “Schumer just talks to him. You get Mitch and Paul in here, and they're trying to explain this or that, and there is no personal connection,” one White House source said.

Trump, who prioritizes the closing of deals over policy details, would rather work with Democrats to get something done than accomplish nothing at all. But his sudden moderation, however long it lasts, can also be chalked up to the influence of White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, who has reportedly imposed strict limits on the sources of information reaching the president. “Trump’s top advisers—Jared and Ivanka, General Kelly, and Gary Cohn among them—are mostly sympathetic to ‘Dreamers,’” Axios’s Jonathan Swan pointed out this morning, reflecting on Trump’s new approach on Capitol Hill. “There’s no more Steve Bannon. And Stephen Miller’s nationalistic voice is a lonely one inside the White House these days.”