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In article <MPG.4274dbeae8e4da0d98bc22@news.eternal-september.org>,
AlleyCat  <katt@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:48:09 -0700,  Rudy Canoza says...  
>
>>  the Founders are rolling in their graves.
>
>Ohhhh... no they're not. They're cheering Trump on, knowing he's the
>first President, since Reagan, to follow what THEY wanted 
>for America.
>
>Oh... YOU think they WANTED MS-13 gang members here?
>
>The Founders never had this come up, stupid, so how could they be
>bothered by beaners coming here illegally?
>
>Here's a question you'll never answer, because it'll expose the real
>reason you're arguing to keep gang members and illegal alien 
>criminals in country:
>
>Why do you CARE what happens to these people?
>
>Because you're a psycho who hates Trump and you know that getting and
>keeping as many beaners as you can, is the ONLY way you 
>might ever win Congress or the Presidency again.
>
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>
>"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition
>
>All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.
>
>"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a
>person has been driven effectively insane due to their dislike 
>of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."
>
>Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in
>the Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into 
>three distinct phases or stages:
>
>"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of
>proportion. The president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, 
>as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world."
>
>"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's
>vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting 
>solely of hyperbole."
>
>"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish
>fantasy from reality."
>
>The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the
>knee-jerk opposition from liberals to anything and everything 
>Trump does. If Trump announced he was donating every dollar he's ever
>made, TDS sufferers would suggest he was up to something 
>nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. There's nothing - not. one.
>thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be received 
>positively by TDSers.
>
>The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the
>early 2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was 
>a punch line for late-night comics and nothing more.
>
>Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first
>coined by the late conservative columnist Charles 
>Krauthammer back in 2003. The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was
>"the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people 
>in reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - the very existence
>of George W. Bush."
>
>Added Krauthammer:
>
>"Some clinicians consider this delusion - that Americans can only get
>their news from one part of the political spectrum - the 
>gravest of all. They report that no matter how many times sufferers in
>padded cells are presented with flash cards with the 
>symbols ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, Time, Newsweek, New York
>Times, Washington Post, L.A. Times - they remain 
>unresponsive, some in a terrifying near-catatonic torpor."
>
>(If you don't realize the idea of TDS or BDS is - in no small part -
>meant in a tongue-in-cheek manner then, well, you may well 
>have it.)
>
>Trump allies believe that TDS is worse than ODS or BDS - by a lot. Wrote
>conservative pundit Bernie Goldberg on Real Clear 
>Politics in early 2017:
>
>"Before the election, the victims of TDS routinely compared Donald Trump
>to Hitler. Guess what. They're still doing it. Articles 
>in respectable publications written by professors at elite universities
>are warning us to be on guard, that a Trump presidency 
>could imperil democracy-as-we-know-it and may very well spell doom for
>American civilization.
>
>"On election night, as it became obvious that their worst nightmare was
>about to come true, some libs fainted. Some vomited. Many 
>more threatened to leave the country, but I'm pretty sure none actually
>did. As Donald Trump might say in a tweet: so sad!"
>
>The truth is that TDS is just the preferred nomenclature of Trump
>defenders who view those who oppose him and his policies as 
>nothing more than the blind hatred of those who preach tolerance and
>free speech. Viewed more broadly, the rise of presidential 
>derangement syndromes is a function of increased polarization - not to
>mention our national self-sorting - at work in the country 
>today.
>
>We no longer live around, work around or pal around with people who
>think any differently than us. We watch cable news that 
>affirms what we already think. We read ideological "news" sites that
>tell us how good our side is and how bad the other one is. 
>And on and on and on.
>
>Is it any wonder then that we are increasingly willing to lump those who
>disagree with us into the "deranged" category? To say 
>that those who don't share our views are mentally deficient in some way?
>
>What does it say about a President - and about a country - when the
>standard response to those with whom you disagree is that 
>they must be crazy? Nothing good, for sure. 
>
>=====
>
>Many clinicians, political commentators, and members of the public have
>speculated upon the mental health of President Donald 
>Trump. Indeed, over 70,000 people self-identifying as "mental health
>professionals" have signed a petition declaring that "Trump 
>is mentally ill and must be removed." In sociological terms, the
>"medical gaze" has been hitherto focused on President Trump, and 
>to a lesser extent his ardent supporters.
>
>However, in recent months, many have been questioning the direction of
>this "medical gaze." In fact, more and more people are 
>suggesting that this "medical gaze" should be reversed and refocused on
>President Trump's most embittered and partisan opponents. 
>Some have even suggested that these opponents are experiencing a
>specific mental condition-a condition which has been labelled 
>"Trump Derangement Syndrome" (TDS).
>What does DSM-5 say about "Trump Derangement Syndrome"?
>
>Mental illnesses are officially classified in a dense and dry book
>published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) known 
>as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth
>Edition (DSM-5). This book contains 947 pages and lists 
>hundreds of mental disorders; TDS is nowhere to be seen. Similarly, a
>review of scholarly databases such as MEDLINE and Google 
>Scholar reveal no academic papers on this alleged syndrome. Officially
>at least, TDS is not a real, diagnosable, or treatable 
>mental disorder.
>
>That said, medical anthropologists and critical sociologists have
>convincingly argued that DSM-5 is a flawed document. Indeed, 
>social scientists have long recognized that there are numerous "folk
>categories" of mental disorders that are considered real 
>conditions by the general public, even though they are not recognized as
>such in the DSM. These include categories such as 
>"burnout" or "nervous breakdown."
>
>As such, lack of official recognition does not mean that TDS is not a
>real mental condition.
>
>
>Lay Understandings of "Trump Derangement Syndrome"
>
>There is no shared lay understanding of TDS, mainly because it is a folk
>category rather than a professional category. As such, 
>there is currently much armchair speculation about the nature and
>existence of TDS, without consensus.
>
>The name itself explicitly suggests a "syndrome," which the Oxford
>English Dictionary defines as "a characteristic combination of 
>opinions, emotions, or behavior." Several commentators have run with
>this, putting forth suggestions about opinions, emotions and 
>behaviors characterizing TDS.
>
>Shared amongst these is a notion that the everyday activities of
>President Trump trigger some people into distorted opinions, 
>extreme emotions and hysterical behaviors. Well-known writer Bernard
>Goldberg gives supposed behavioral examples of TDS among 
>Trump's political opponents, including fainting, vomiting, students
>retreating to "safe spaces" and others demanding "therapy 
>dogs." Political commentator Justin Raimondo focuses on opinions,
>language and cognition, writing in the LA Times that "sufferers 
>speak a distinctive language consisting of hyperbole [leading to] a
>constant state of hysteria... the afflicted lose touch with 
>reality."
>
>Such forms of highly emotional reaction could be something akin to the
>fainting and screaming characterizing American Beatlemania 
>in the 1960s. Unlike the Beatles, however, the extreme emotional
>reaction alleged to characterize TDS is not based on adoration 
>and admiration, but on fear and loathing.
>
>Contrariwise, many others ridicule the notion that TDS is anything but a
>malicious slur term used to discredit and delegitimize 
>criticism of President Trump. For example, CNN's Chris Cillizza may
>speak for many when he stated: "The truth is that TDS is just 
>the preferred nomenclature of Trump defenders who view those who oppose
>him and his policies as nothing more than blind hatred." 
>Likewise, Adam Gopnik writes that "our problem is not TDS; our problem
>is Deranged Trump Self-Delusion."
>
>In other words, there are polarized opinions about the nature, reality
>and existence of TDS.
>
>
>Conclusion
>
>The wider public may be unaware that psychiatrists and social scientists
>spend considerable time and energy behind closed doors 
>pondering over the existence and reality of mental conditions. This has
>led the APA to revise the DSM five times since 1952, 
>considerably expanding the list of official mental disorders with each
>revision. As far as I am aware, few psychiatrists are 
>currently arguing that DSM-6 should contain TDS as a mental disorder.
>
>That said, in its official definition of mental disorder, the DSM-5
>states that "a mental disorder is a syndrome characterized by 
>clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion
>regulation, or behavior... mental disorders are usually 
>associated with significant distress in social, occupational, or other
>important activities."
>
>Many have argued that some people have been seriously disturbed and
>distressed by the policies, speech, behavior, and tweets of 
>President Trump, so much so that it has affected their cognitive,
>affective, and behavioral functioning. Such people may need 
>mental health support. As such, further research is necessary to
>investigate the extreme reactions toward President Trump, in the 
>same way that researchers investigate other extreme social phenomena,
>such as Beatlemania or the like. This will shed light on 
>the reality of this emerging folk category that has been labelled by
>many as "Trump Derangement Syndrome." 
>

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