The so-called United States of America* seems to have entered a new phase of being. Let us call it a state of quantum politics. Quantum physics, we are told, is the study of how matter and energy behave at the most fundamental level. Quantum politics is the study of how power behaves in an unprecedented environment where traditional legal and moral restraints have been removed, and a significant portion of the public has seceded from reality. Tuesday night provided a fine specimen of this new regime in operation. The person recently re-installed at the head of the Executive branch—despite two prior impeachments, a slew of felony convictions, and widespread agreement among those who don’t drink the cult’s Kool-Aid that he is the last person on Earth who should have the job—told the assembled members of Congress that “the days of rule by unelected bureaucrats are over.” To its credit, his audience did burst out laughing. Back in their districts, though, their constituents probably didn’t think…