Trump's Health, and Ours

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : In the first half of this year, major U.S. newspapers ran dozens more articles about Biden's mental acuity than they have about Trump's in the past nine months, and, in the end, the Democratic leadership prevailed upon Biden to step aside for coalition and country.
43% : The health-news site STAT has reported that since Trump left office his use of extreme and binary linguistic constructions such as "always" and "never" -- which can also be a sign of cognitive decline or depression -- has increased some sixty per cent, and that his speech now contains much more negative and backward-looking language.
43% : Trump himself has felt obliged to address his digressive rambling.
43% : Whether owing to pandemic fatigue or to overworn slogans about Obamacare repeal and Medicare for All, health care has been less central to this election than to any in a generation.
41% : "Trump has always given off Twenty-fifth Amendment vibes.
34% : Trump has also increasingly cancelled interviews, reportedly owing to exhaustion; he has held less than a quarter as many rallies in 2024 as he did in 2016.
33% : The question is whether, after all that Trump has said and done -- maligning the military, fawning over dictators, bragging about sexual assault, refusing to accept election results -- the spectre of a man now even less in control of his faculties could be what moves voters.
28% : In Wisconsin, according to polling from Marquette Law School, more than six in ten voters say that Trump is too old to be President; a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll found that, nationally, around half of Independents say that he doesn't have the mental acuity for the job.
16% : The real danger of a second Trump term is not that Trump is a man in decline.
10% : Barack Obama oversaw the passage of the Affordable Care Act, and Trump nearly orchestrated its demise.
2% : John Kelly, Trump's longest-serving chief of staff, has argued that Trump is "certainly an authoritarian"; Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has warned that Trump is "fascist to the core."

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