Among the very few things we don’t have to worry about — as we move toward the inevitable total meltdown of The Trump Farce — is whether the anonymous author of the instantly legendary essay about calculated insubordination in the White House really is a “senior administration official.”

Bank on it. He/she is.

Unlike Trump, The New York Times is not in the habit of doing things in half-assed, reckless ways. The Times has been at the game of vetting information a lot longer than Trump or any of his fever-addled swamp critters. Publishing an anonymous column lie that is, in straight-laced Big “J’ journalism terms, waaaay out there. And knowing full well that the author’s identity will be ferreted out sooner rather than later, the Times would not consent to the “senior official” business if he/she were anything less than someone with regular, direct access to and interaction with our paranoid, buffoon in chief.

The paper’s credibility would take a brutal hit if the author was revealed to be some relatively non-descript third-tier bureaucrat at, for example, the National Council on Agriculture. Also, as was pointed out by one pundit last night — actually Natasha Bertrand of The Atlantic, who is one of the reporters regularly reaffirming her credibility during this fiasco — the Times Op-Ed policy requires proving that a writer making claims to have access to meetings such as are described in the anonymous essay actually had such access. Also, (and I think this was Rachel Maddow), whoever “anonymous” quotes in the essay has to have a pretty damn good idea of who he/she said that to.

(“There is literally no telling whether he might change his mind from one minute to the next,” a top official complained to me recently … .)

That withstanding I take a small amount of pride in my prediction that the full meltdown and a new epoch of craziness was fast approaching. (Here from February and here from June.) I said “late spring to early summer” and I’m pretty confident that the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki in early July was the breaking point for a large number of D.C./White House regulars, an appalling demonstration of servitude that was quickly followed by both Trump attorney Michael Cohen and long-time tabloid crony David Pecker flipping on him and promising new fathomless tales of corruption, debauchery and incompetence.

So yeah, I’m a goddam seer. (New prediction: The Vikings will royally screw up a vital game and not win the Super Bowl.)

Also worth noting, a conversation on “Morning Joe” this morning, with ex-CIA director John Brennan, retired Admiral James Stavridis and old State Department hand Richard Haas — (i.e. not three twits on “Fox & Friends”) — was all about the very real possibility of Trump attempting some kind drunken-Nixon “wag the dog” action, distracting the public and rallying the goober base behind some absurd military action — and whether the military is now as insubordinate as “anonymous” claims the White House staff is to a guy who is so indisputably out of his depth.

So yes, “crazy time” has fully arrived, only to get crazier and possibly scarier in the weeks to come.

Hey! But how ’bout those Vikings?