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The Binky Doctor wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> ===============================================================================
>>
>> "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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> What does this have to do with Canadian politics?
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Fuck off, binky.