Also, all nations shall acknowledge that Mommy did too love me

I think it was Belle Waring at Crooked Timber who once had a post pointing out — I’m paraphrasing here — that if you’re going to imagine you have a unicorn, why not give that unicorn wings, while throwing a perpetual ice cream maker into the bargain?

I’m sufficiently venerable that I remember the days (two years ago) when a president announcing something this utterly unhinged and detached from reality would by itself trigger a fullblown constitutional crisis.

Now it’s just another manic Monday.