Trump Pays a French Company a Billion Dollars to Increase Your Electric Bill

Say what you will about Donald Trump, he’s a man who tends to fixate on simple ideas. One reported reason for his biliously hostile anti-immigrant policy back in 2016, for instance, was that his aides used “build the wall” as a mnemonic device. Even in 2014, Trump tended to ramble incoherently while delivering a speech, so this served as a way to focus his attention and get him to repeat it a billion times.

Another Trump fixation is “wind farms bad.” From what I can tell, this one is...