Naturally not in the American press but from The Daily Mail Online: Rudy Giuliani says Trump is smarter than he looks as The Donald consults with former NYC mayor and other ‘kitchen cabinet’ advisers. Here are the sub-heads for your delectation:

• Donald Trump is assembling a ‘kitchen cabinet’ advisers
• Former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Education Secretary Bill Bennett, economists Art Laffer and Steve Moore rumored to be involved
• Trump promised in South Carolina that he would soon unveil a foreign policy advisory team
• ‘He has an exceptionally good understanding of how the economy affects our foreign policy,’ Giuliani said of Trump
• ‘This idea that he’s only familiar with slogans, it’s not accurate at all’

And the opening paras of the story:

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and a handful of policy wonks are casually advising Donald Trump as the Republican front-runner prepares for the kind of scrutiny he has yet to face.

But Giuliani says The Donald is up to the task.

‘You know, he’s very good,’ Giuliani told The Washington Post on Sunday, when a reporter asked whether the Republican front-runner has a decent grasp of complicated public policy issues.

‘It’s clear that he has an exceptionally good understanding of how the economy affects our foreign policy,’ he said of Trump.

‘He understands what’s happening with China, how they could stop North Korea in a heartbeat. This idea that he’s only familiar with slogans, it’s not accurate at all.’

A kitchen cabinet that includes Giuliani, Bill Bennett, Art Laffer and Steve Moore! This is the Dream Team of conservative political economy. And he’s anti-PC, and he knows his way around politics. And he can beat Hillary Clinton in a way no one else can even come close to trying. If you don’t see Trump is the closest answer there is to the problems we now face then you should renew your subscriptions to The Age and New York Times and be done with it.

Mark Steyn Update: Steyn, presently in Australia, casts his eyes back home to the election. Here he explains the formidable problems facing any Republican and concludes:

Long term, two things have to happen: America has to restore the integrity of its borders, and conservatism has to get a piece of the action in the schools and the culture. Short term, the GOP has done a grand job of screwing itself out of electoral viability.

The problem has been that many on the right side of politics believe it has to win over the left, hence Malcolm Turnbull, PM. Being a veteran between-the-lines-reader as I am, Steyn is saying it is Trump or no one. Alas, no one on the respectable right is permitted to say a good word about Trump, so he doesn’t either. But if the article doesn’t manage to set out for you where things are and how dire it is, then just wait till the campaigns start for real.