bend

One of the greatest magic tricks I ever saw unfolded when Johnny Carson invited the illusionist Uri Geller on “The Tonight Show” to bend a spoon with his mind.

However, after bending over to pick up his cap, he collapsed and never regained consciousness.

“Lessons” include singing scales with one’s hands in the air, dropping on the high note, or bending forward and being pulled up by the ascension of notes.

Whether senators will bend to this is unclear.

And a Republican Congress has already proved compliant to Mr. Trump’s norm bending.