Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
Posted on 11/17/2016 9:08:27 AM PST by servo1969
Like all dictators, the Democrats believe in democracy only until they lose an election.
And then they lose their minds.
The last time a national mental breakdown this severe happened was sixteen years ago when Bush beat Gore. The Democrats reacted gracefully to their defeat by insisting that they didn't really lose because Bush stole the election. Psychiatrists were soon tending to lefties suffering from depression. Others protested outside the Florida Supreme Court, President Bush's home and their parents' basement.
Jesse Jackson accused Republicans of a "coup." Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson warned that "without justice there will be no peace." Thousands protested Bush's inauguration waving signs like, "We want Bush out of D.C." and "You're not our president."
The Congressional Black Caucus tried to obstruct the certification of the Electoral College vote. Then when Bush won again in the next election, they did it all over again. Expect them to try it one more time.
Because they don't believe in democracy. They believe in their own absolute entitlement to power. Any election that they win is legitimate. Any election that they lose is illegitimate.
But if Bush Derangement Syndrome was bad, Trump Derangement Syndrome is even worse.
#NotOurPresident on Twitter quickly gave way to riots in major cities. Democrats in the affected cities decided that the riots were a great idea even though it was their own police that were being attacked.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, New York City's radical leftist boss, claimed that "more disruption... will change the trajectory of things". Even though the only trajectory that the protests have changed thus far is New York City traffic. "The more people fight back, the more it takes away his power," he insisted.
Wiser heads on the left recognized that messing up Manhattan traffic wouldn't stop Trump from taking office. Instead they decided to abolish the Electoral College. Senator Boxer will introduce a bill to that effect. Bernie Sanders mumbled that it's time to rethink it. Michael Dukakis fired off an angry email insisting that Hillary Clinton had won and that abolishing it should be a top Democratic priority.
Since Hillary lost, the Electoral College is, according to Slate, an "Instrument of White Supremacy--and Sexism". And probably Islamophobic and Homophobic too. Time Magazine defaulted to the default lefty attack on anything by accusing the Electoral College of being racist. But if Hillary had won, then any attack on the Electoral College would be racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic and claustrophobic.
Rank and filers weren't interested in waiting to abolish it tomorrow. They skipped right to trying to rig it today. Over 4 million people have signed a petition titled, "Electoral College: Make Hillary Clinton President on December 19". Because that's just how they think elections should work.
Efforts were made to contact Electors directly urging them to hijack the election. Idaho Secretary of State Lawerence Denney said that the Electors were being harassed with "insults", "vulgar language" and "threats". One Elector reported that his cell, home phone, email and Facebook were targeted.
"They're just trying to steal this thing," he said.
The Electoral College is undemocratic. Unless you're a Democrat asking it to undemocratically hijack the results of a state election while depriving its voters of political representation.
Some Democrats despaired of stealing the election and tried to steal the Supreme Court instead. There were revived calls for a Supreme Court recess appointment. There's a petition, a Saturday Night Live punch line and a bizarre effort by Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley to move the nomination forward.
Merkley claimed that Trump has "no right to fill" that seat and that the Supreme Court seat was stolen. "We need to do everything we possibly can to block it," he insisted.
What does that mean? How about a permanently deadlocked Supreme Court?
A Slate writer urged that, "the only way to answer nihilism is with nihilism of our own."
"Obstruct the nomination and seating of any Trump nominee to fill Scalia's seat," she urged. "We will lose. But that's not the point now... If Democrats can muster the energy to fight about nothing else, it should be this."
A permanently deadlocked Supreme Court doesn't sound like much of a plan. But Trump Derangement Syndrome means embracing nihilism. And it's downright rational compared to the celebrity meltdowns as TMZ's finest cope with the blow to their egos of an election that showed they didn't matter.
Lady Gaga has been yelling at Trump on and off Twitter. Constitutional scholar George Takei demanded that Obama just appoint Garland. Honorary feminist Joss Whedon declared, "This is simple: Trump cannot CANNOT be allowed a term in office. It's not about 2018. It's about RIGHT NOW."
What does that mean? It's a tantrum. It means that baby wants his power and he wants it now.
And it only gets crazier from there.
The outer reaches of Trump Derangement Syndrome include calls to boycott three brands of toilet paper because they're allegedly made by the Koch Brothers. Never mind that the Koch Brothers weren't supporting Trump. Facts, like democracy, only matter when they happen to be on your side.
Then there are the ritual burnings of New Balance sneakers on YouTube and Instagram. Not to mention support for the secession of California from the United States of America.
A man has sued Donald Trump for $1 billion for having inflicted "great emotional pain, fear and anxiety on Election Day and beyond." Students at Cornell held a "cry-in" to mourn the results of the election. The University of Kansas offered students therapy dogs. At the University of Michigan's multi-ethnic student affairs center students took comfort in regressing to childhood with coloring books and Play-Doh.
John Hopkins recommended a healing circle. Stanford urged students to "take care of yourselves and to give support to those who need it." Vanderbilt encouraged them "to take advantage of the outstanding mental health support the university offers."
At the University of Maryland, an astronomy test was canceled to help students cope with "a personally threatening election result." A Yale economics professor made his test optional because students were "in shock" over losing an election. A dozen midterms were rescheduled at Columbia.
One student complained, "Instead of studying for my exam, I was glued to the election update. It's not fair to have a test the following day when something so monumental is taking place, especially when this event is threatening so many groups of people in our country."
Under all the outraged rhetoric is a narcissistic sense of entitlement. Frustrate it and tantrums happen.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is the tantrum that happens when that sense of entitlement bursts. It's not a new phenomenon. We saw it with Bush and with previous Republican presidents before him. But as the left's power has grown, its insular ivory towers have become unable to imagine ever losing it.
Obama maintained the illusion that the opposition didn't matter by ruling unilaterally. Then in one election the illusion collapsed. The left wasn't really in charge. There were millions of people across the country in places they had never visited or even heard of who got to decide on all these issues.
That warm comfortable safe space of John Oliver and Samantha Bee viral videos, Buzzfeed stories and social media feeds filled with carefully curated people who agreed with them wasn't reality. It had been an illusion all along. It was an elitist island that had little in common with that vast geography of people who get their say through the Electoral College. After two terms of getting their way on everything, they woke to a world in which they didn't matter and which was suddenly no longer catering to their whims.
They don't really want to abolish the Electoral College, to put Garland on the Supreme Court or to burn New Balance sneakers. What they really want is to get rid of democracy and replace it with a dictatorship. Trump Derangement Syndrome is the tantrum of tyrants.
It's a real threat to democracy. But that's what the left has always been.
The hysteria of Trump Derangement Syndrome is the flip side of Obama worship. Both reject democracy and embrace power. They are the illiberal attitudes of a totalitarian movement at odds with America.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
Two nihilists don't make a realist. or something to that effect...
This is the democrat party molded into the image of Obama- lawlessness, racial division, petulance.
TDS infected a large % of so called conservatives in DC, state governments and on the conservative internet sites.
Jim did a good job of weeding them from the FR garden.
Some lingers still post blatant and covert TDS posts/pings and deny their mental illness. Hopefully, they will recover from their TDS and become good supporters of President Trump.
Liberals in my office are going to a walk on washington on January 1st to protest Trump.
Are not most of them law breakers..wether it the street agitators doing property damage and physically assaulting people. Or the Governors and Mayors defying immigration laws.
I prefer “Trump Acceptance Resistance Disorder” or TARD.
If any of them whined "I need my safe space" in front of me, I'd have a mighty battle within myself not to plant my boot toe into their raggedy rear end out of pure disgust. These are NOT people cut out to be leaders. These are NOT the people who would have settled the West against unbelievable hostile forces, stormed the beaches on D-Day, fought the greatest military in the world to gain our country's independence. Can you imagine one of these pathetic whining crybabies confronting a Redcoat? A rampaging bear? A hail of machine gun fire?
Nope. They'd assume a fetal position and scream for mommy and their "safe space". A generation of useless morons.
You people just don’t know what it’s like to *reeeally reeeally* want something, and have a bunch of evil people conspire to not let you have it!!!
Seriously though, has anyone notice the similarity of collective behavior among butt-hurt liberals and a stereotypical stalker?
How would we capture that thought in words?
partisian-stalker?
“Constitutional scholar George Takei demanded that Obama just appoint Garland.” I didn’t know that Judy Garland was in line to be Supreme Court justice. (Just kidding!)
Good for a chuckle.
Trump Acceptance Resistance Disorder
Facebook | Gae Lawree Stimmel
Do You Know Someone Suffering From Trump Acceptance Resistance Disorder (TARD)? Know the Signs, Spot the Symptoms, Save a Life
Trump Acceptance Resistance Disorder is a pattern of pathologically dissociative and psychotic behavior, first observed in the late hours of November 8th 2016, and increasing in severity with passing time.
Sufferers of Trump Acceptance Resistance Disorder often exhibit pronounced cognitive dissonance, sudden bouts of rage, uncontrollable crying, suicidal ideation, and extreme butthurt.
Signs and Symptoms:
People with Trump Acceptance Resistance Disorder are characterized by a persistent unwillingness to accept that Donald Trump is going to Make America Great Again. Individual sufferers often display signs of paranoia and delusion; in acute cases psychotic episodes have been observed. Trump Acceptance Resistance Disorder is different from being upset about the results of the 2016 presidential election; People with TARD are unwilling or unable to accept reality, despite irrefutable evidence. According to the DSM-V, individuals with TARD exhibit most or all of the following symptoms:
Telling others they are moving to Canada
Fixated on fantasies about the Electoral College
Protesting an election no credible source contests the outcome of
Exclamations that “Someone” should do “Something”
Sudden weight gain
Acute change in demeanor from pompous and arrogant to fearful and combative
Claim that anyone who disagrees with them is some combination of Racist, Sexist, Bigoted, Homophobic, and Actually Hitler
Causes and Mechanisms:
Trump Acceptance Resistance Disorder was directly caused by the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States of America. For many, both in America and worldwide, this was a shocking and unexpected outcome; their preferred news sources having failed to inform them that the alternative candidate was a criminal parasite in such ill health she got chucked into the back of a van like a kidnap victim.
Research is ongoing, but TARD appears to correlate closely with the following environmental and behavioral factors:
Membership in the Democratic party
Identifying as a Feminist
Currently enrolled in college, and/or Possession of a Liberal Arts college degree
Cuckoldry
Living in a densely populated metropolitan area
Massive student debt
Spotty or non-existent work history
Hipsterism
Diagnosis:
Diagnosis of Trump Acceptance Resistance Disorder is straightforward. Ask the patient if Donald Trump is going to be the Next President of the United States of America. Some patients will become agitated, and may attempt to deflect. It’s critical you press them on the issue, even if they start babbling about ‘muh triggers’. A sufferer of TARD will begin to ramble incoherently, often displaying three or more of the symptoms within a short period of time.
Co- morbidity:
A diagnosis of Trump Acceptance Resistance Disorder is highly comorbid with Paraphilic Infantilism, Emotional Eating, Bush Derangement Syndrome, and adult bed wetting.
Treatment:
The only known effective treatment is exposure therapy. The patient must be repeatedly exposed to reality, and should wear a Make America Great Again hat as long as they are able to tolerate it. Each exposure should increase in length, after a week the patient should be encouraged to be seen in public wearing the MAGA hat. Coach the patient to refer to Donald Trump as President-Elect Trump.
Patients with TARD are very resistant to treatment, and dangerous in large groups. Any possibility of treatment requires that they be separated from their hive-mind support apparatus; they cannot begin the process of accepting reality in the presence of encouragement towards delusion and irrationality.
Separation may require the assistance of law enforcement.
If you have a friend or loved one suffering from TARD, urge them to seek treatment. Together we can beat this scourge, and Make America Great Again!
-Gae Lawree Stimmel colt, via Facebook
Demonicrats are traitors down to the bone. Their rantings and rioting are to-be-expected expressions of outraged traitors. Once the Demonicrats resort to violence, they should be stopped immediately with whatever force, including flamethrowers, is needed to accomplish that task.
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