I’m a baseball fan, and baseball is absolutely lousy with statistical measurements. Plenty of people will complain about Sabermetrics — and I’m occasionally one of them — but they can help strip away all the noise and cruft and extraneous factors to really focus on what you’re talking about.

So I’d like to start doing the same for politics. There is so much (fully intentional) chaos and confusion and misinformation going on that it’s hard to take it all in, even if you actually want to. And you very much do not want to.

For instance, Trump is a first-ballot hall-of-famer for his “WPD” or “Watergates per Day” alone. How many Watergate-level, Constitutional crisis-inducing crimes and abuses of power is Trump committing every single day? Two? Three? Let’s say he’s got a 2.5 WPD in just his first month. Sure, he’s been getting a ton of corruption-assists from his team, and he’s likely juiced up on Adderall and narcissism, but his record is incredible by any measure. If he was actually President, imagine how high it would be. Imagine how high President Musk is.

Contrast this with Trump’s record 0.96 9PD, or “9/11s per Day,” that he achieved during COVID.

He’s really stepped down his game, and will stop at nothing to be the absolute worst. You have to not admire that.