The people who use TDS unironically would continue to use even as libs were being transferred to camps. It won’t end now that Trump is doing the things we’ve always said he would do because it isn’t and has never been a legitimate criticism.
Joementum2024 on
Written by Nick Cataggio aka Allahpundit (a former Hot Air center-right writer turned Trump critic and Bulwark writer).
>All of the impulses we’ve seen since Friday were there in Trump 1.0 but were restrained by advisers and the president’s own uncertainty about how voters would react if he followed those impulses to their logical conclusions. In Trump 2.0, the thoughtful advisers are long gone and the voters are no longer a concern. And so: At a moment when Putin’s own spokesman is crowing about the U.S. embracing Russia’s “vision” of the world, the Pentagon is halting offensive cyberoperations against Russia (even at the planning stage) and Trump’s Republican toadies have begun demanding that Zelensky resign for having dared to embarrass their leader by making perfectly valid points when debating him.
>No one with “Trump Derangement Syndrome” could have foreseen it, just like no one could have foreseen Marco Rubio whining about—deep breath—“Ukraine-splaining” on national television. But here we are.
>Sabotage.
>All of it has the feel of deliberate sabotage.
>That’s not to say that it is deliberate sabotage. But if Trump 1.0 was akin to a horse being loose in a hospital, Trump 2.0 seems altogether more intentional. We’re seeing things we’d expect to see if the goals of the administration were to reduce American influence internationally, undermine basic federal services at home, trigger a series of constitutional crises related to executive power, and convert the government into a kleptocracy in which there’s no limit to how much the president’s friends might benefit.
Snrubness on
TDS was always used by his base to try and stop people reporting or focusing on the many, many bad things he does.
The idea that just because he does an unfathomable amount of terrible things it is “deranged” for people to focus on them was always laughable. Particularly when on the other side of the coin Republicans have a long history of (often successfully) demonising Democrat politicians based on minor, or complete non-issues.
TheRedCr0w on
Like almost everything conservatives say it is nothing but projection. The same people who complain about “Trump Derangement Syndrome” are the same people whose entire personality is about owning the libs and obsessing over Democrats that aren’t even in power anymore.
Secret-Ad-2145 on
Yeah, I agree with the premise of the article.
His first administration was chaotic, but it was controlled within the environment of somewhat decent aides and advisors. His second administration is indeed everything people feared. I’m sure for many on the right (who are not blind MAGAts) this flanked them because they anticipated it to be something like the first administration.
obsessed_doomer on
The real TDS was unironically saying TDS
theryman on
I didn’t realize Hackman was 95. That makes the timeline make a bit more sense, if he had mental decline and his wife was his caretaker.
bigdicknippleshit on
Everyone I know who says TDS unironically will go on rants about Kamala/hillary unprompted. It’s always been projection.
Remember when Obama wore a tan suit?
Xeynon on
“Trump Derangement Syndrome” was always an idiotic label for a completely rational read on who Trump is.
Frankly, I think you have to be deranged to look at him and not perceive that he’s an authoritarian, anti-American demagogue.
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The people who use TDS unironically would continue to use even as libs were being transferred to camps. It won’t end now that Trump is doing the things we’ve always said he would do because it isn’t and has never been a legitimate criticism.
Written by Nick Cataggio aka Allahpundit (a former Hot Air center-right writer turned Trump critic and Bulwark writer).
>All of the impulses we’ve seen since Friday were there in Trump 1.0 but were restrained by advisers and the president’s own uncertainty about how voters would react if he followed those impulses to their logical conclusions. In Trump 2.0, the thoughtful advisers are long gone and the voters are no longer a concern. And so: At a moment when Putin’s own spokesman is crowing about the U.S. embracing Russia’s “vision” of the world, the Pentagon is halting offensive cyberoperations against Russia (even at the planning stage) and Trump’s Republican toadies have begun demanding that Zelensky resign for having dared to embarrass their leader by making perfectly valid points when debating him.
>No one with “Trump Derangement Syndrome” could have foreseen it, just like no one could have foreseen Marco Rubio whining about—deep breath—“Ukraine-splaining” on national television. But here we are.
>Sabotage.
>All of it has the feel of deliberate sabotage.
>That’s not to say that it is deliberate sabotage. But if Trump 1.0 was akin to a horse being loose in a hospital, Trump 2.0 seems altogether more intentional. We’re seeing things we’d expect to see if the goals of the administration were to reduce American influence internationally, undermine basic federal services at home, trigger a series of constitutional crises related to executive power, and convert the government into a kleptocracy in which there’s no limit to how much the president’s friends might benefit.
TDS was always used by his base to try and stop people reporting or focusing on the many, many bad things he does.
The idea that just because he does an unfathomable amount of terrible things it is “deranged” for people to focus on them was always laughable. Particularly when on the other side of the coin Republicans have a long history of (often successfully) demonising Democrat politicians based on minor, or complete non-issues.
Like almost everything conservatives say it is nothing but projection. The same people who complain about “Trump Derangement Syndrome” are the same people whose entire personality is about owning the libs and obsessing over Democrats that aren’t even in power anymore.
Yeah, I agree with the premise of the article.
His first administration was chaotic, but it was controlled within the environment of somewhat decent aides and advisors. His second administration is indeed everything people feared. I’m sure for many on the right (who are not blind MAGAts) this flanked them because they anticipated it to be something like the first administration.
The real TDS was unironically saying TDS
I didn’t realize Hackman was 95. That makes the timeline make a bit more sense, if he had mental decline and his wife was his caretaker.
Everyone I know who says TDS unironically will go on rants about Kamala/hillary unprompted. It’s always been projection.
Remember when Obama wore a tan suit?
“Trump Derangement Syndrome” was always an idiotic label for a completely rational read on who Trump is.
Frankly, I think you have to be deranged to look at him and not perceive that he’s an authoritarian, anti-American demagogue.
Orange man is bad actually.