The original Derangement Syndrome, insofar as I know, was called Bush Derangement Syndrome. There are always those so far at the political extreme that the opposition party's candidate is going to provoke some form of Derangement Syndromen in them. I can definitely recall Reagan Derangement Syndrome. Trump is an extreme personality at best, and the policy differences between him on the one hand and Hillary-Biden-Kamala on the other were so stark that a more widespread form of Derangement Syndrome than is usually the case was inevitable (Kamala Derangement Syndrome almost as much as TDS). But this isn't what we're now talking about. We're talking about someone who is pretty clearly, to me anyway, pathologically disturbed. If he was your wacky old grandfather who sometimes says or does things that embarrass the family, that would be OK. But this is someone with too much responsibility, and too much power, to allow it to continue. To recognize this has nothing to do with TDS - good grief, I VOTED FOR HIM TWICE. As Michael said, in this context the claim of TDS is just a cop-out. Refusing to see what seems so obvious to me and many others is, it seems to me, its own species of Trump Derangement Syndrome. There are probably 25 Republicans who could replace Trump, and who would move forward with much the same policies, but who would bring an immediate end to the concern and fear that Trump's Presidency generates not only in America but around the world because he is so obviously unfit to hold this kind of responsibility and power.
