…long ago. He’s been skating on the edge for awhile and at some point he fell off, and it’s a long fall.
He’s also 77 now. He doesn’t look or sound like a well man. I also looked at him during Trump’s post-election debacle and wondered if there was anyone in his family to intervene.
But here’s the thing: there’s a certain personality type —shouty, bullying, insistent on their own way at all costs — that conditions their families, their subordinates, anyone in their orbit, to leave them alone or to obey them just to avoid the fights.
I have read that people with dementia may experience noticable personality changes, even early on. Frankly, I have not seen that with these types, altho my personal sample is blessedly small. They have to be really far gone before they lose their grip on those habits. It makes it awfully hard for family to intervene.
Meanwhile, said family may feel utterly alienated, a possibility with the multiply-divorced Rudy. Or they may be completely transactional and looking out for Number 1, as seems to be a Trump family tradition. Trump himself is 75.
(Biden is 79, before someone reminds me, a man who runs and bikes, takes good care of himself. I have known quite a few people who are sharp as a tack well into their 80s and 90s.) q
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