Wichita

Amidst all the chaos; amidst guilty pleas and cooperation; amidst the swamp which drained directly into the cabinet; amidst the record number of staff members who have chosen and/or been forced out of their positions; amidst severely overheated fact-checking machines; amidst self-inflicted tariff wounds.

Amidst economic advisers whose prior fame was as staunch anti-tariff warriors; amidst Mexicans knee-slapping over paying for walls; amidst a son-in-law guiding the human butcher through universal condemnation; amidst giant baby balloons and the protestations "I am not a baby," creating for some the quandry "whom to believe."

Amidst close advisers who chose the words moron and idiot, and the associate whose op-ed chose the word "amoral," and amidst all the redactions, I feel increasingly reassured via tweet of the smocking brilliant stable genius at the helm.