Source: Washington Post
by Megan McArdle
“Given our rapid demographic shifts, I suppose the problems of an aging society would be embodied in a presidential election eventually. Now they have. First, we witnessed a president’s dramatic decline in a prime-time presidential debate. And now Donald Trump might be poised to succeed that man as America’s oldest president ever. … I won’t try to diagnose Trump’s mental state from afar (and for what it’s worth, at Wednesday’s town hall in Georgia, he seemed no more unhinged than usual). But regardless of whether Trump suffers from age-related cognitive decline now, there’s a high risk that sometime in the next four years, he will. Which is why we need a constitutional amendment to prevent someone so old from ever running for president again.” (10/18/24)