One need not be longwinded to get to the gist of recent news. Thus:

“When knaves fall out, true men come by their goods,” goes the old proverb. Trump and Bannon dissing each other may be good news, then. So we may hope.

Another, similarly: Les larrons s’entrebalent, lee larcins se descouvrent—“When highwaymen fall out, robberies are discovered.” Paul Manafort suing Robert S. Mueller because he’s “gone too far,” perhaps with the help of Michael Flynn? Maybe just one highwayman falling may suffice to bring good tidings, but two are a better bet. Again, one can hope.

One more: “There is honor among thieves.” Really? We’d never get a useful plea bargain if that were broadly true, but we do. So haply it’s not.

And last for now, some poetic solace for our times:

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power;
let fortune’s bubbles rise and fall;
who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree,
is more than all.

—John Greenleaf Whittier