Is it possible he is still struggling with addiction demons?
Yeah that would be my suspicion. Addiction recovery is hard enough as it is and its even harder when you’re surrounded by other users.
With the utter lack of morality in DC it wouldn’t surprise me one bit that others would deliberately attempt to shove him off the wagon.
“Is it possible he is still struggling with addiction demons?”
I’ll say this. Next week I celebrate 20 years sober.
The guy may want nothing of his old life. He may have realized the cutthroat, crooked, manipulative, dishonest life of bigtime politics is no longer for him.
When I got sober, I wound up cutting my ambition way down to size, along with the matching ego, stress etc.