Donald Trump is a superspreader for a craziness that has split America in two | Simon Tisdall

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Trump is nuts.
48% : But the Atlantic journalist McKay Coppins, who interviewed Trump 10 years ago, says he's always been this way.
42% : One contributor suggested he was clearly off his chump: "Trump is now the most powerful head of state in the world, and one of the most impulsive, arrogant, ignorant, disorganised, chaotic, nihilistic, self-contradictory, self-important, and self-serving.
41% : One theory is that Trump, bullied and bullier, was driven up the wall by maternal love denied.
40% : His analysis shows Trump is using such language 69% more often than when he ran in 2016.
36% : A third definition, rooted in US rather than British usage, suggests that Trump is indisputably bananas, in the sense that he is constantly "intensely angry or displeased".
34% : So is incipient senility, or cognitive decline, another cause of his exceptional looney-ness?Trump stumbles, mispronounces words, forgets where he is and loses his train of thought.
33% : "We are seeing that from Trump as he uses his rallies... to crudely lash out.
30% : It's a normal person's reaction to the abnormal things Trump says and does.
29% : Trump has refused to take credible mental acuity tests or release his medical records.
23% : Has stark raving Trump finally lost his marbles?
19% : If Trump were to go mad on his own time, no problem.
12% : Yet is the madness of "King" Trump, like the madness of King George (whose tyrannical rule Trump seeks to emulate), getting worse?
5% : Trump calls Harris a "shit vice-president" who is "mentally impaired".

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