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“Matilda’s” guiding principle is that adults may indulge in self-satisfying fantasies about their little darlings: “My mommy says I’m a miracle,” sings the opening number, as cinematographer Tat Radcliffe pans over adorable newborns in their cribs.

At least, it’s a more self-satisfying conclusion than grappling with the fact that no one reads or likes your posts either because they suck or are actively harmful to other users and, resultingly, should be reined in.

In New York, I’ve attended outdoor socially distanced watch parties in Washington Heights with fellow Kansas Citians who were also missing their families back home; I’ve continued clacking out annoying but insanely self-satisfying pro-Chiefs tweets into the ether and joined others in cathartically laughing at the head coach Andy Reid’s adorable struggle with a giant face shield.

But I think this speaks to a larger problem for Trump and some on his team: they tend to remain in a self-satisfying bubble.

A bit more of this compassion, however self-satisfying, might resolve many conflicts, not just his own.