Ever since Trump quit the Democrat Party around 2015 and became a Republican president, various entrenched Democrat factions have developed an intense hatred of the man. This hatred and vitriol was given a name: Trump Derangement Syndrome or TDS.
This phenomenon, which to most Republicans is quite annoying, has not ceased during the Biden administration and promises to continue until at least 2028.
It's the main reason Republicans hoped that Ron DeSantis or some other successful Republican could beat Trump in a face-off. The skills and charisma (and the energy) could not do the trick. So here we go again.
One of the most deranged TDS pieces recently appeared in the LA Times. It's presented by an hysterical entertainment reporter named Mary McNamara titled, “As we were warned, the villain Trump has returned. The news cycle proves it.”
Instead of comparing Trump to Hitler, she compares him to every other horrible person she can think of. It's quite remarkable. Of course, she never explains how the “news cycle” proves anything, but, no matter. Trump is a bad actor on oh so many levels; only idiots would vote for him.
This is a common theme, by the way. “How could anyone vote for that guy?” No left-leaning Democrat or never-Trumper Republican ever tries to come to grips with the fact that people do like and do vote for Trump, and will again.
This is beyond their comprehension. This cognitive block is sincere and relentless. If any of them even makes an attempt to understand someone who votes for Trump, they come to incredible and juvenile conclusions. These Trump voters are misinformed. They are stupid. They've been tricked. It never goes any further than a blind befuddlement since these answers--stupid, misinformed, tricked--seem logical to them.
Of course, this is often a projection, since the Democrats themselves are often misinformed and tricked. Stupid is another matter. I would like to remind people of the early days of the Trump presidency when there were idiotic tales of Trump watching “Gorilla TV” and demanding his staff get more episodes that showed gorillas pounding their chest. This nonsense was believed by every pussy-hat-wearing hater of the era.
One crazy story appeared about how Trump, under some questionable circumstances, gave the Guggenheim museum a gold toilet, for some reason. This was during the era where Trump was depicted as a gauche buffoon. These bogus tales never ended and continue to this day. But today's bogus stories stem from taking a sentence out of context and condemning him with it.
This technique was first developed around the “very fine people” Charlottesville comment. It takes a minimal amount of research to find the context that made the comment innocuous. But Joe Biden and others misused the quote to gain a political foothold and noticed that the mainstream press did nothing to correct the error. This then became the modus operandi for years to come.
Now we have “Putin can attack whomever he wants.” And, “There will be a bloodbath if I am not elected.” “Dictator from day one.” And on and on.
It gets worse as the media, in alliance with various Trump-haters, make stuff up, much of it quite ridiculous. This would include the third-hand story about January 6 when Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of the Presidential limousine (“the beast”) and wrest control away from the secret service driver. The idea is too idiotic to contemplate.
Then there are the references to Trump using the phrase “poisoning the blood” and the word “vermin.” The media then attributed these comments to Hitler's Mein Kampf. This is to draw a parallel between Trump and Hitler. Well, you can go here and search the entire 700 page book word for word. Only once the does the word “vermin” appear, and it seems to refer to lice or Marxists. There are 31 uses of the word “poison” and most refer to Marxist ideology and newspaper reporters. None were about immigrants. In fact the word “immigrant” does not appear anywhere in Mein Kampf and the word “immigration” appears only once and refers to the American system.
But spending time debunking the often creative false claims about Trump is an obvious waste of time and has been since the Gorilla TV hoax. The solution is to ignore the bigoted media altogether and go about your business. Look around you; are prices too high and do threats of war loom? Yes? Then vote out one guy and put in another. It's pretty simple and it has little to do with stupidity, misinformation, or trickery. It has to do with common sense. — jcd24