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Trump Derangement Syndrome Will Guarantee The President’s Re-Election townhall.com/columnists/pau…
President Lyndon Johnson once said, “If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'”
Presidents, historically, have always had a significant portion of the media opposed to both the administration itself and their policies. Today we are witnessing something different. Similar in origin of past presidential opposition, yet stronger, more visceral, more deranged.
Democrats are no longer capable of articulating a sound and reasoned opposition to the president. They have continually failed to or refused to cite a consistent strategic or rational difference in policy and approach.
Like Europe was consumed by the Black Plague, Democrats have been consumed by Trump Derangement Syndrome. They have become both ensconced in, and incapacitated by, the hysteria of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Take the border crisis. Through the campaign and the first two-and-a-half years of Trump's presidency, he talked about the border crisis. Democrats denied its’ existence. Never offering a counter policy approach, Democrats simply declared that there was no crisis.
When asked about the border crisis at the debates each candidate made a point of using words like ‘inhumane,' ‘compassion,' and the ever-present yet undefinable ‘comprehensive immigration reform,' yet not one single counter policy approach was presented.
This is Trump Derangement Syndrome plain and simple.
The candidates decried Trump's border crisis approach yet offered no solution of their own. Compassion and inhumane treatment are not policy approaches or solutions. Trump cannot nationalize the Waldorf Astoria and house the countless illegals there.
He cannot seize control of Cedars-Sinai or the Mayo Clinic to offer the best free medical care in the world. The candidates presented no solution differing from Trump’s approach, only decrying Trump’s approach because it was Trump’s approach. That’s Trump Derangement Syndrome.
At the debates, the candidates were presented with the fact that 71 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the economy. Each candidate repeated the left's tired talking point that Trump’s economy is rigged for the rich.
No substantive Trump economic policy complaints. No rational solutions presented. Simply telling 71 percent of Americans that Trump’s policies are bad because they’re Trump’s policies.
Running a presidential campaign without any substantive policy proposals, only lambasting the very policies Americans are supporting and feeling the benefits of is a political insanity that we haven’t seen since Walter Mondale’s 1984 promise to raise your taxes.
Trying to convince Americans that policies they are benefitting from are bad simply because they come from Donald Trump requires a cognitive dissonance on a national level that is simply unattainable.
