Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) has taken a huge toll on America. One doesn’t need to be a Trump supporter to see it.
One only needs to read The Atlantic.
There are days when nearly every article ballyhooed in the rag’s promotional email is about how awful the president is.
There is a lot of awful in Washington, though, not just Trump. Where’s the rest of the news?
Of course, this isn’t just about Trump. The Atlantic was once a liberal journal. No more. Now it is relentlessly progressive.
Take a recent article on Georgia Governor Brian Kemp.
“The governor has demonstrated a willingness to defer to the president instead of his own constituents,” writes Amanda Mull, in “America’s Authoritarian Governor,” begging the question of which constituents.
They are, last I checked, not in total agreement.
Ms. Mull contends that Kemp’s deference to Trump (TDS Alert) sacrifices — yes, she uses the word “sacrifice” — “Georgians’ safety to snipe at his political foes, and shore up his own power at the expense of democracy. In short, Kemp is a wannabe authoritarian, and millions of Georgians have suffered as a result, with no end in sight.”
No end — er, except the 2022 election.
And how is Kemp an “authoritarian”? Mull objects to the governor not shutting down commerce quickly enough, hard enough, thoroughly enough, according to the scientists she selects.
Though epidemiologists are not of one mind on how to deal with the current contagion, somehow politicians who reject the advice of her “authorities” — well, they are “the authoritarians.”
The fact that shutting down commerce is itself something we expect from the most authoritarian of regimes . . . did it not cross the reporter’s mind?
Worse than mere TDS.
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I read the Atlantic for more than two decades. Gave it up around 2003. Haven’t missed it at all.
During the entire eight years of the Bush Presidency we saw BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) blatantly on daily display from the leftists and their lapdog media.
I fully expected TDS to exceed that, but the truly rabid reaction we are seeing has lead me to revise my expectations to BCTDS (Bat$hit Crazy Trump Derangement Syndrome).