precious few

Precious few bands can fill a stadium 52 years into their career — let alone play to an audience heavily populated by parents and their children, both generations sporting red devil horn headbands and cheering for 77-year-old singer Brian Johnson and white-haired guitar icon Angus Young, 70.

When the crew looks out the windows, they will see the curvature of the Earth—a view that precious few humans have ever gotten to experience, Coleman pointed out: “When you see it for yourself, you realize how big the world is and how all of us are from the very same place.”

Truly pause to consider that: Among the people in America with the most power and money and means and clout, precious few have stood up to Trump in his second term; many more of our supposed best and brightest, and certainly our best-resourced, have gotten on their knees and groveled.

Finding staffers who show total loyalty to Trump and who aren’t suspected to be ideologically compromised by, say, working for a Republican or even a former Trump official who has fallen out of the president’s favor, leaves precious few qualified candidates to choose from.

Together they make a thoughtfully conceived and composed character into a narrative impetus not usually seen in stories about grief and healing, and there are precious few of those in the first place.