There’s an op-ed in the L.A. Times by Justin Raimondo that’s worth a read. If for nothing else than to give those of us who oppose President Cheeto the First a warning of how we are going to be treated and viewed by those on the hard right.
Having read it I have just one question for Mr. Raimondo… Where the fuck have you been for the last eight years?
The country is in the throes of a major epidemic, with no known cure and some pretty scary symptoms. It's called Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS, and it’s rapidly spreading from the point of origin – the political class – to the population at large.
In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion.
Seriously? Again… Where the FUCK have you been for the last eight years? On an island with Gilligan?
In the advanced stages of the disease, the afflicted lose touch with reality. Opinion is unmoored from fact. Life resembles a dark fairy tale in which the villain – Trump – is an amalgam of all the worst tyrants in history, past and present, while the heroes –Trump’s critics – are akin to the resistance fighters of World War II.
TDS victims routinely compare Trump to Hitler.
Yeah, cause that absolutely, positively was NEVER done to President Obama. Nope. Never. Never ever ever. *facepalm*
If you ask a TDS victim what might help them feel better, they’ll use the word “normalize.” As in, we mustn’t “normalize” Trump. What they’re really saying is that normal means of dealing with him aren’t enough. Which raises the question: If he’s another Hitler, if he’s in league with Putin, then why is assassination out of the question? Poke a TDS victim and you’ll find they don’t think that “solution” is out of the question at all.
This is the final stage of the TDS epidemic: violence against a democratically elected leader. Unless a cure for TDS is found, this is where we are headed.
And there we are. The purpose of this op-ed. To paint the Left or indeed anyone who opposes the Narcissist-in-Chief as someone who is not to be taken seriously. As someone who is unhinged and ultimately dangerous.
Shame on you sir. Shame.
The hypocrisy that oozes off your op-ed is almost beyond belief. In the sections of the op-ed above replace TDS with ODS and Trump with Obama and you have exactly what you and those on the right have been doing to President Obama since he was sworn in back in 2009.
It won’t work. Because unlike President Obama, Donald Trump is exactly who and what we have been accusing him of being and he’s shown it to all of us over and over since he started running for President.
The thing is there really is a Trump Derangement Syndrome. Only its you sir and those of you on the Right who seek to “normalize” Donald Trump and everything he does that suffer from it. It’s your inability or unwillingness to see or even acknowledge just how truly unqualified and unstable this man who is about to become the most powerful leader in the free world really is.
And that’s whats really dangerous.