Trump Derangement Syndrome
A crazy-making pejorative, in the extreme. Let’s flip it.
7 min readMay 21, 2020
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I have known about an absurd mental illness called “Trump Derangement Syndrome” (TDS) for years now, but never really took it seriously. I didn’t take it seriously because it’s easy to see that the term is an insult to intelligent people who happen to disagree with many of the policy positions of President Donald Trump.
I have friends on Twitter imploring me to believe that TDS was invented as a sincere attempt to describe the range of negative responses to Donald…