Sundowning in America: The price of bacon relative to personal income per capita has only been noticeably lower than it is today for about a year in 1994-1995.

Try to parse Donald Trump’s speech today, and he presents as a random text generator with a ten-word memory: “bacon” leads to “products” which leads to “energy” which leads to “wind” which leads to “when [wind] doesn’t blow” which leads to “problem”. But there is no train of thought here at all. This presents as a very high level of cognitive deficit indeed:

Donald Trump: ‘You take a look at bacon and some of these products. Some people do not eat bacon anymore. And we are going to get the energy prices down. We get energy down. You know, this was caused by their horrible energy—wind. They want wind all over the place. But when it doesn’t blow, we have a little problem… <newrepublic.com/post/18…>