Wednesday, February 14, 2024

2024 election: Forget the gaffes and think about the strongmen that Donald Trump admires most

 

NPR, 2/14/2024
But dementia experts say such slips, on their own, are no cause for concern. 
"We've all had them," says Dr. Zaldy Tan, who directs the Memory and Healthy Aging Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. "It's just that we are not public figures and therefore this is not as noticeable or blown up." 
Also, memory lapses become more common with age, even in people whose brains are perfectly healthy. 
The temporary inability to remember names, in particular, "is very common as we get older," says Dr. Sharon Sha, a clinical professor of neurology at Stanford University.

But Trump's willful desire to upend democratic, social, and moral norms is both abnormal and dangerous.

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