The president is tweeting nonsense again.

People will say, and have said, all sorts of things about this. That it's bad policy, or dangerous policy, or completely counterproductive. And partisan morons will defend the policy. And other partisan morons who don't want to defend the policy will say zany stuff like the president has the right to make foreign policy and other such pap, as if wisdom springs from legality and there's no room or reason to criticize the legal.

But for me, it just sounds like the ramblings of an old man. As I tweeted, if an old neighbor said this to you at a neighborhood party, you'd smile and nod, and then tell your wife to check and makes sure he isn't living alone.

This isn't complicated:

1. Trump is too old to be president. So was Biden. It's not impossible for someone who is 80 to do the job of president, but it is impossible to know that someone that age will still be able to do the job 3 years later. The cognitive decline of people in their late 70's is steep and quick.

2. Trump has obviously declined in the last five years. It's jarring to watch a tape of him during his first term, he looks like a completely different person. It has been more gradual than Biden's decline, and that has made it less starkly obvious.

3. I don't trust Trump---and I didn't trust Biden---to throw in the towel when they can no longer do the job. It's just not in the nature of a president to think that way, anymore than it is for a starting pitcher to admit he's out of gas. And I trust the staff around the president even less; as the saying goes, it is very difficult to make a man understand something when his job specifically depends on not understand it.

4. We shouldn't leave this to the voters. There are too many cross-cutting substantive and partisan concerns that get in the way of principled avoidance of too-old presidents. We've now seen both parties nominate and win elections with people who were plainly in the danger zone. I'm in favor of a constitutional amendment barring anyone from becoming president who is over 72 at the time of inauguration. And don't bother me with any ageism crap.

5. I don't believe we need similar age limits in the legislature; I wouldn't have a problem with them---one huge distortion/bias in Congress is how old the Member are---but old people can do the job of representative. The problem on the executive side is that there are too many emergency decisions and too many situations where less-than-perfect faculties are a problem. I saw Bobby Byrd many times when he was essentially a corpse in a wheelchair in the Senate. Did it reduce his capacity to represent West Virginia? Sure, on on the margins. Did it endanger the nation? Not even close.

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