A number of print media were running at the end of last week (24 January) with various versions of The Standard’s or The Mirrors, “Donald Trump is showing signs of mental incapacity like Joe Biden”.
Now where did this all come from and why now? Well, I feel that the Democrats have realised their boy is pretty much compromised as far as the voters are concerned as regards his impaired mental capability. Too many falls from bikes, or nodding off at summit meetings, mangling his words or drifting off topic, and falling up airline stairways have given the fallibility message way too much traction.
Now Trump by comparison may be as mad as a box of frogs but at least he has the energy and drive still to carry him through a Presidential campaign. He doesn’t look doddery or senile. The Democrats though have to muddy the waters though.
Roll out an “expert”. Medical “Experts” from Harvard had “concerns as far back as 2017 (so they are wheeling an oldy here) to say Trump is compromised. Nothing like being up to date and nothing like following the tried and tested Russian tactics book.
Barry Goldwater
Not that this sort of thing is new. Far from it, although you might need to be as old as me to remember Barry Goldwater’s run way back in 1973, when 1000 psychiatrists went public with their views about Goldwater’s fitness to hold office. They called him all sorts of names including “a dangerous lunatic”. Remember you are not supposed to offer medical opinions without personally having examined the patient. Thoroughly unprofessional. The psychiatrists came back with the dubious old nostrum of their “Duty To Warn”. But part of any duty to warn is having a proper evaluation, and you don’t form that by shouting at the television.
They were warned not to do this sort of thing again.
Sad to see this is exactly what is being rolled out again albeit on a smaller scale. Its rubbish of course but dangerous rubbish and a sign of just how gloriously dirty this particular election is going to be!
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