Seriously, what other president is even remotely in his league?

There was corruption in the Grant and Harding administrations, but the presidents were largely uninvolved. Nixon committed crimes in secret but didn't really line his own pockets.

Trump is like a Thomas Nast cartoon come to life.

Last month I belatedly came upon the BBC satire W1A (with Hugh Bonneville). It was funny though a bit broad. With the the latest developments out of the BBC, including the censorship of the Reith lectures, I won’t finish streaming the series because it is no longer satire, it’s reality

There is no evidence that spikes alone or oscillations alone are functional. Nor can there be. They are inseparable. They both correlate with function (but can give different messages). People who think it's only spikes are ignoring basic physics and artificially pulling apart a unified syatem

It’s just another example of Quantbrain disease: where data and simple models, often arising as linear regression, get the wrong answers on complex systems.

Data do not tell us what messages “work” to change public opinion, and they don’t tell us what’s innovative, for the same reasons.