Friendly reminder that Ronald Reagan was called senile so often it became a running gag on SNL and the late night shows. He then won 49 of 50 states in the 1984 election.
The nation wasn't fucked because he had dementia...it was fucked over because he implemented Republican policy preferences. Anti union, trickle down economics, anti environmental, pro military-industrial complex, defunding primary public education, "states' rights"....