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Same.
It's a shame his Alzheimers didn't hit in 1981.
From some reports I have read about his time in the white house it had definitely started before he left office.
That's probably likely, but I mean like... full-on, undeniable, this guy can't run the country Alzheimer's.
Not that it would have mattered a ton. Bush was just as corrupt, but who knows? All we know in retrospect is that Reagan was an absolute atrocity for the working class in this country.
I'm not convinced the yanks had anything in place to deal with that. Look at recent demented presidents.
I believe there's an act covering presidential disability, dating from long before Reagan, due to a president's wife having effectively run the country for a couple of years while her husband was too ill to get out of bed. That would probably cover obvious and serious dementia as well. (Not my country, though, so I may have it wrong.) Problem with the recent Republican presidents is that their insanity is plausibly deniable, if your worldview is damaged enough already.
I'm not convinced the yanks had anything in place to deal with that. Look at recent demented presidents.