Like OVER HALF of Dotard’s first administration Cabinet, his former White House lawyer believes Boss Hogg is suffering from dementia.

 Trump “can’t get into a sentence without raising a grievance” and can’t resist making revenge-driven points or trying to “add glory to himself,” added Cobb, now a fierce critic of his former boss.

“I don’t think there’s anybody outside the boundaries of the United States who believes for a second that Trump is sane at this stage of the game,” Cobb continued. “And those in the United States are merely in denial or are so invested in him they can’t accept what their own eyes tell them.”

And no, I don’t think America is headed toward anything like a Rome-style collapse. Our institutions are too strong, and our people, deep down, still have the same democratic values.

But I do know that events are being propelled by one man’s damaged psyche. History does not record many cases in which a power-mad leader careening toward tyranny suddenly regained his senses and became more moderate. On the contrary, the normal course of the disease is toward ever-accelerating deterioration and debauchery.