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Undated: Trump derangement syndrome (TDS) is a neologism describing a reaction to United States President Donald Trump by liberals, progressives, and Never Trump neoconservatives, who are said to respond to Trump's statements and political actions irrationally and with little regard to Trump's actual position or action taken.[1] The term has been used by pro-Trump conservatives to discredit criticism of Trump's actions.[2][3][4]
[Charles] Krauthammer, himself a harsh critic of Trump, later defined "Trump derangement syndrome" as a Trump-induced "general hysteria" among the chattering classes, producing an "inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and ... signs of psychic pathology" in the President's behavior.[8]
In December 2016, Justin Raimondo divided the "syndrome" into three stages; in the first, those who "lose all sense of proportion"; next, they experience "a profound effect on ... vocabulary" and begin to "speak a distinctive language consisting solely of hyperbole"' and, in the final stage, the afflicted "lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality."[10] Jonathan S. Tobin defines it as "disgust at his manner and his tweets such that all distinctions between him and genuine villains is lost."[11] In April 2017, Fareed Zakaria defined the syndrome as "hatred of President Trump so intense that it impairs people’s judgment."[12][13] CNN's editor-at-large Chris Cillizza called TDS "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."[1] Pointing to previous allegations of Bush Derangement Syndrome and Obama Derangement Syndrome, Cillizza suggested, "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."[1] Bret Stephens has described the term as something used by conservative groups whenever someone speaks out critically against Trump, regardless of political affiliation.[14]
The term has been widely applied by pro-Trump writers to critics of Trump, accusing them of responding negatively to nearly every Trump statement or action.[11][15][16]
The use of the term has been called part of a broader GOP strategy to discredit criticisms of Trump's actions, as a way of "reframing" the discussion by suggesting his political opponents are incapable of accurately perceiving the world. However, according to Kathleen Hall Jamieson of Annenberg Public Policy Center, the term could backfire on Trump supporters because people might interpret it to mean that Trump is the one who is "deranged", rather than those who criticize him.[2]
The term has been used by journalists critical of Trump to call for restraint.[12][17][18] Fareed Zakaria, who urged Americans to vote against Trump calling him a "cancer on American democracy,” argues that every Trump policy "cannot axiomatically be wrong, evil and dangerous."[12] Adam Gopnik, who takes a strong anti-Trump position, responded to these assertions that it is a "huge and even fatal mistake for liberals (and constitutional conservatives) to respond negatively to every Trump initiative, every Trump policy, and every Trump idea." Arguing that Trump's opponents must instead recognize that the real problem is "Deranged Trump Self-Delusion," which Gopnik defined the "Syndrome" as President Trump's "daily spasm of narcissistic gratification and episodic vanity."[15]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_derangement_syndrome
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January 20: Trump's Timeline of Hate
Since the moment Donald Trump and Mike Pence walked into the White House, they have attacked the progress we have made toward full equality for the LGBTQ community and undermined the rights of countless Americans.
But over the course of his first year in office, you haven’t stayed silent. Whether he meant to or not, Donald Trump has awakened a sleeping giant. Never before have Americans been more eager to participate, to advocate and to fight back. And each and every day, HRC and our grassroots supporters are harnessing the full power of our democracy to protect our progress and resist.
https://www.hrc.org/timelines/trump
July 14: Donald Trump sexism tracker: Every offensive comment in one place
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politics/donald-trump-sexism-tracker-every-offensive-comment-in-one-place/
November 1: Hate in Trump's America
Fault Lines examines the rise of hate in the United States and the toll it is taking on communities across the country.
https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/faultlines/2017/10/hate-trump-america-171031080947571.html
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June 17: Why does Trump hate Jeff Bezos: is it about power or money?
The owner of Amazon and the Washington Post keeps his counsel, spurring the president to ever-greater rage
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/17/donald-trump-jeff-bezos-amazon-washington-post-power-money
August: Hate in the White House ... a timeline of instances of extremism in the Trump administration in August.
President Trump has opened the White House doors to extremism, not only consulting with hate groups on policies that erode our country’s civil rights protections but enabling the infiltration of extremist ideas into the administration’s rhetoric and agenda.
Once relegated to the fringes, the radical right now has a toehold in the White House.
https://www.splcenter.org/hate-white-house-%E2%80%94-august?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIw4bAj8yo3wIVh7fsCh0yFQeDEAAYAiAAEgIm0PD_BwE
August 14: Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Trump Hates All Americans Equally
As President Donald Trump faced allegations of racism and cruelty on Tuesday, his press secretary stepped to the White House podium to deny only one of those charges... But her defense—that Trump has insulted people of all races, not just African-Americans—only underscored how the President and his aides have embraced his caustic attitude...
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/08/14/30766146/sarah-huckabee-sanders-trump-hates-all-americans-equally
August 30: Hate Donald Trump? No way; it’s more a sense of . . . luftschlossmoddermüde
A dictionary still comes in handy when dealing with Donald Trump
“Amazed” is closer to the mark, but not quite right. “Shocked”? Not anymore.
Not hate. I certainly don’t hate him. He’s hardly worth hating. Honestly, if Americans elected a dog as president, would you hate the dog?
Narcissism isn’t unique to Donald Trump. We all suffer from some degree of vanity. We all occasionally look at life in the funhouse mirror of ourselves. I sure do. It’s a handicap. You survey the wide wonders of our glorious world distorted, and your eyes keep returning to one particular person — you! — sitting forward in his chair, arm extended, waving: “ooo, ooo, me me me!”
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So what’s the word? Something expressing disgust in the unseemly fallout of another person’s grandiosity? It calls for one of those enormous compound German words. Maybe I can cobble one together. Hmmm … let’s see …
“Luftschloss” literally means “castle in the air” and is a German idiom for someone suffering delusions of grandeur. “Modder” means “mud” And “müde” is exhaustion. Strung together we get luftschlossmoddermüde,” or “tired of the filth being flung by an egomaniac.” That sounds a lot more to-the-point than “hate.”
For a long time, Trump’s outrages were met with a cry of “This is not normal.” That phrase rings hollower and hollower as the months unfold. It should instead be, “This was not normal.” Because it certainly is the new normality we are saddled with today and for the foreseeable future. I wish I could prescribe a cure for the luftschlossmoddermüde that patriotic Americans living in the fact-based world are feeling lately. At least now we have a word for it.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/steinberg-donald-trump-aretha-franklin-hate-luftschlossmoddermude-politics-president/
September 24: [From "why do people love -or hate- Trump? Here Are The 20 Top Reasons "]
Why do people hate Donald Trump? After reviewing tons of online comments, we found that these are the Top 20 Reasons that Donald’s Trump critics say they hate him. Surprisingly, they’re also the same exact reasons that other people love him!
https://thoughtcatalog.com/jeremy-london/2018/07/why-do-people-hate-trump/
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Undated: Trump Hate Map
