If he did use cocaine in the election, and I think he probably did, and maybe does, he didn't really slur his speech. So, I think it is probably stress, TIAs or something. It could be that he is trying to get off the coke.
I have a naturally high energy personality, and I don't do coke...but his is different...like obsessive, can't stop, can't focus, no attention span. He just acts like the people I have been around, rarely, younger years, on coke. He can't stop going. No natural human can go with that sociopathic energy for 20 hrs per day. Campaigning is brutal. He does sniff and have a red nose, also. The signs are all there. Even the impulsiveness, sexual addiction, changing his mind...often a sign. Not every coke head is alike, anyway. This image that we have been fed of down in the dumps cocaine addicts is only half of the story. The meth addicts, who can't afford the good, pure stuff, are in a death spiral. Cocaine is the rich person's drug.
There are cocaine addicts who are very successful for life, Fosse. I know a couple of successful multimillionaire liberals, who did cocaine together 35 years ago, before they were married, and they were poor. Now, they are retired, travel, and spend a lot of time in Hawaii, enjoying the waves, and doing coke. They both look 10 years younger than their age, and their brains are fast. I've known Ivy League students that admitted their academic success was because of the cocaine advantage, even though they quit once they achieved success in life.
I think sometimes it served him well in the business world, doing things fast and furiously, but then , he got over his head in the casinos, out of the real estate world. It served him very well on the camp trail, in the primaries and the general election. It doesn't serve him well in government. He needs measured judgment of complex problems, and he doesn't have that capacity. Plus, he doesn't have the control over his environment that he did in the business world. So, maybe he's trying to quit.
I'm not an advocate. I have a cousin who died as a result, may have been a suicide, as he was headed, again, to rehab, but he never saw his son; his wife was pregnant at his death. He hung out with jet set rock stars and got addicted when he was young. He couldn’t stop and adapt to a "normal " life. I'm saying that just because DT functions (some would argue) and is wealthy, rather than hanging out at a crack house, doesn't mean he doesn't do cocaine.
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