Dr. Trump: The Quack Can See You Now.

Trump, Kennedy and Oz Lie to the American People Putting Pregnant Women and their Babies at Risk.

There’s a particular quality to the silence that follows a truly catastrophic public pronouncement. I remember it vividly from that surreal COVID briefing when Trump floated the idea of injecting bleach into our veins as some sort of pandemic cure. It wasn’t just the hush that fell over that particular room in the White House, it was the collective intake of breath in conference rooms, laboratories, and medical facilities around the world, where actual experts sat frozen in disbelief. I still have the moment documented somewhere in my notes, marking it as the precise instant when some of the most devoted Trumpers finally fell off the turnip truck.

But here we are again, and apparently our national attention span has shrunk to that of a housefly. January 6th, the bleach moment, all of it somehow forgotten in the rush to hand the keys back to Dr. Disaster for another joyride. There really is something to be said about the deadly consistency of stupid people in America, matched only by th…