re: #3 Nerdy Fish

From downstairs:

The amazing thing isn’t necessarily that Trump is trying to become a dictator for life, but that it took so long for someone to try it. (FDR notwithstanding.)

I think that the stresses of running the Executive Branch prematurely ages most people. Prime ministers can last longer but not by much. While Thatcher lasted almost 13 years, the average is about 5 years, the maximum length of one Parliament.

Trump is an exception because he really never did any stressful work.