People, Personas, and Politics 15 – Sliver of a Chance
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): People, Personas, and Politics
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/04/03
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Rick Rosner: Imagine a president that comes down with frontal lobe dementia, where somebody with frontal lobe dementia loses their superego and become capable of just about anything.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So that would be an exaggeration of the ‘it becoming worse’ phenomena.
RR: Well, frontal lobe dementia is not that common.
SDJ: Well, it seems functionally equivalent to becoming worse in terms of his personality.
RR: But I mean, what could be just personality traits now, four years from now could be pathologies.
SDJ: What about a sliver of a chance of having a broader vision of society and getting over himself?
RR: That’s one of the possibilities. One of the possibilities with Trump, who wants to be liked, could start governing as a centrist, or saying what he actually thinks about stuff, which may contradict Republican orthodoxy. He could say anything. He could say Republicans are full of shit on certain things.
SDJ: Do you see hints of this at time?
RR: No, only in the defeat of Trumpcare or Ryancare. He doesn’t seem to be that devastated. [End of recorded material]
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