He didn’t say it for sympathy, and he didn’t say it to rewrite the past. He said it because carrying it any longer felt impossible. The nation watched a former president look less like a symbol and more like a man who finally ran out of places to hide from himself. The revelation wasn’t a single act, but a pattern: the quiet ways ambition had hollowed him out, the compromises that had seemed small until they accumulated into something unbearable.
In the days that followed, pundits tried to spin it, weaponize it, fold it into their narratives. But what lingered wasn’t the analysis; it was the rawness. People saw in him the terrifying possibility that you can win almost everything and still lose yourself. His confession didn’t demand forgiveness. It offered a mirror. And for many watching, the hardest part was recognizing their own reflection staring back.
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