Interesting debate:
Jennifer Rubin notes:
“Is Trump nuts,
ill-informed or a liar — or all three?
Until now, people who
could have shed light on a president’s mental state were professionally
hindered from doing so. The so-called Goldwater Rule — named for the late Sen.
Barry Goldwater, whom some psychiatrists took to calling crazy because of his
foreign policy views — admonishes medical professionals not to opine on the
mental health of people whom they had not examined. In the context of Trump,
however, there has been some buzz about doing away with the rule on the grounds
that psychiatrists should be able to give their best medical judgment to “warn”
the public.”