And on tonight’s episode, when she faces a crisis — the reactions to her incoherent TV interviews last January — the carefully created sentences she uses to explain her slurry, stumbly self-presentation says it all.

She would sometimes rattle off her servants sharply.

Thy plumbs are fair indeed, but void of taste; And those large thick-shell cobs the teeth will guast.

And are we, Mr. President, who stood by our country then, who threw open our coffers, who bared our bosoms, who freely perilled all in that conflict, to be reproached with want of attachment to the Union?