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On Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:07:07 -0500,  Chris Ahlstrom says...  

> (Republicans) are pathologically unwilling to help Americans in need

Republicans give to charity FAR more than Democrats, idiot.

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Study Finds Conservatives Are 30% More Charitable Than Liberals Even ...
https://greenlivingtribe.com/study-finds-conservatives-are-30-more-charitable-
than-liberals-even-with-a-lower-income-and-what-they-give-to-is-even-more-of-
a-rabbit-hole/
According to Google's data, if donations to religious organizations are 
excluded, liberals actually give slightly more to charity than conservatives. 
However, Brooks claims that when measured as a percentage of income, 
conservatives are more generous than liberals, even when it comes to secular 
causes.

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Republicans Give More To Charity Than Democrats
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/republicans-give-more-to-charity-than-
democrats-but-theres-a-bigger-story-here/
One could conclude that Republican party is, despite the conventional wisdom, 
the party that cares about those in need and puts its money where its mouth 
is. But the true picture is more complex, reflecting at best a real difference 
between the parties in the best way to approach the challenge of human need.

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Conservatives Are More Charitable Than Liberals In The U.S.A.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X21000752
For example, using three nationally representative micro-level surveys, 
Margolis and Sances (2017) demonstrated that conservatives and Republicans 
tended to give more to charity than liberals and Democrats.

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How Political Affiliation Impacts Charitable Giving
https://givingcompass.org/article/how-political-affiliation-impacts-
charitable-giving
The political differences between Republicans and Democrats don't play out 
solely at the ballot box; they also predict how likely people are to donate to 
charity. This finding from a newly published research project reflects a key 
difference, one tied to political affiliation, about how our nation should 
take on critical social issues like homelessness, poverty, and health care. 
The data ...

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Statistics On U.S. Generosity - Philanthropy Roundtable
https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/statistics-on-u-s-generosity/
Republicans, in comparison, had comparatively few skinflints, and numerous 
serious donors-31 percent sharing at least $1,000 with charity, versus 17 
percent among Democrats, and 20 percent among Independents.

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Conservatives And Liberals Differ In Levels Of Generosity
https://www.philanthropy.com/news/conservatives-and-liberals-differ-in-levels-
of-generosity/
The Big Idea Conservatives were less generous over all than liberals during an 
experiment in which people could give some money to Covid-19 relief charities. 
Conservative participants also overwhelmingly preferred to use this 
opportunity to give to local charities rather than national ones, even if they 
expressed more nationalistic sentiments than liberals.

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Republicans Give More To Charity - Democratic Audit
https://www.democraticaudit.com/2017/11/17/republicans-give-more-to-charity-
but-not-because-they-oppose-income-redistribution/
Republicans give more to charity - but not because they oppose income 
redistribution Who gives more to charity - Republicans or Democrats? Michael 
Sances (University of Memphis) and Michele Margolis (University of 
Pennsylvania) found that conservative Americans donate more, even when socio-
economic differences are taken into account.

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Does Partisanship Influence Charitable Giving? - Surveymonkey Apply
https://apply.surveymonkey.com/resources/partisanship-influence-charitable-
giving/
A different divide Despite the generosity of both Democrats and Republicans, 
there are some differences in the amounts that individuals donate. While the 
tendency to give is common, Republicans donate larger sums than Democrats. 
Overall giving levels rise as incomes grow for both groups, but Republicans 
give slightly more at each income level.

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How Political Ideology Influences Charitable Giving
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/your-money/republicans-democrats-charity-
philanthropy.html
Nov 3, 2018 - Many issues seem to divide Democrats and Republicans, and new 
research has found one more: philanthropy. Red counties, which are 
overwhelmingly Republican, tend to report higher charitable ...

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Partisanship, Political Alignment, And Charitable Donations
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11127-024-01215-8
Nov 13, 2024 - This paper examines how alignment with the government 
influences beliefs about the efficiency and role of government, and examines 
the behavioral consequences of these beliefs. In particular, we examine how 
support of versus opposition to the government affects people's charitable

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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."