I'm trying to imagine any other time in the history of the US or for that matter of anyplace, when a man could say "I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats," and any sane person would think "oh yeah, that's the kind of guy I want in charge of our nation's health."
"I believe the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoia it will be possible to systemize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of reality," said Salvador Dali in 1930. It took a little longer than he predicted, but halleluja we are here!