Barry’s less “power-wielding tyrant” and more “eager and aggressive kingmaker.” I get some chuckles suggesting that he would fit in on Game of Thrones - not because he’s into backstabbing, you see, but because he knows how to play politics in an unteachable, instinctive way. He took an enormous amount of goodwill and…

Not.quite. There’s fire behind that smoke, but not of the kind you think there is. Office scuttlebutt is off (though not by too far) here.