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The 'broken brain' taboo is finally fading
What happened
AlterNet argues that a longstanding media reluctance to discuss Donald Trump’s mental fitness is weakening. It cites a Time interview transcript containing disjointed answers and false claims, New York Times reporter Katie Rogers’s observation that his rally remarks sometimes stop making logical sense, and increasingly direct commentary from figures including Lawrence O’Donnell. None of that establishes a medical diagnosis, and the reporting supplies no clinical evidence of dementia.
The article also links Trump’s rhetoric to presidential power. After former International…
The skinny
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