Petri FTW

Alexandra Petri gives Hope Hicks the public obituary her career deserves.  In it, she coins a phrase:

She was also one of those Schrödinger’s Adults with whom the president has surrounded himself, fully and miraculously responsible for all sorts of major decisions until suddenly and conveniently helpless.

Here is an important insight wrapped in a joke.  It's not just that these people become "Schrodinger's Adults" by themselves.  There is an important segment of the media and governing establishment that needs these ciphers to be more than they are.  They need John Kelly to be more than a racist hack.  They need Mike Pence to be more than a religious bigot.  They need Paul Ryan to deeply care about the poor.

Meanwhile, the evidence stares them in the face that the cat is, in fact, dead.