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It's definitely happening to 
and it happened to 
and it's also happening, slowly and gradually, to 
. It's like the martyr effect in reverse: the longer they live, the more clownish they appear, even to their own followers. Is there a term for that?
I'm gonna go full
and point out that Harvey "Two Face" Dent in The Dark Knight said "you either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
So I think we should use the term Two Face.
edit: lol other people brought this up already