Remember when Cornel West tweeted about "Brother Trump"? I do. Reason enough

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27. He went to Princeton and proved capable of good work. My guess is he behaved

a lot more carefully in his early days, like most eager, ambitious bright young people. He would have been much more disciplined and earned his appointments by producing conscientiously.

There's a long list of public people still around who elevated themselves then self destructed.

Look at Gingrich, once hugely powerful speaker of the house, reduced to years of gadflying, pushing for attention to his keep name brand from expiring so he could sell scummy books and fake cancer cures. He's been mentioned in a lot of discussions of personality disorder, speculation of course but by knowledgeable observers.

(Another gadfly payoff, of course, is that his wife was just named ambassador to the Vatican. Only in a trumpster-fire administration, though. Poor Vatican.)