"Derangement" is in the eye of the beholder.

[Atticus]

Trump seems to think that he "invented" a clever phrase: "Trump derangement syndrome". Of course there was first a "Bush derangement syndrome" and then an "Obama derangement syndrome", but Trump's phrase is now somehow original.

TDS is defined as the mental condition of someone who has been driven insane by their obsessive hatred of Trump and is willing to abandon all logic and common sense in their constant criticism of all he says and does. (Are you nauseous yet?)

But, what if, like most things in Trump world, this definition has things "bassackward"? Suppose that all that Trump says and does IS really screwed up and, therefore, is rightly and reasonably criticized? That would mean that those who condone and even applaud all his words and deeds are the ones who are "deranged".

Opposing virtually everything Trump proposes is the very definition of "common sense".

[Hortensis]

1. Speaking of bassackward. This term is pathetic projection

to everyone of a phenomenon confined to extremists on both right and left, but far more numerous on the right.

Those who've adopted extreme political views typically have a powerful need to see themselves as normal and as good and righteous, instead of as the dysfunctional and usually nasty whackadoodles they are.

[Atticus]

4. And projection is one of the few activities in which Donald truly has few peers. nt

[Hortensis]

7. :) A man without conscience? My guess is

that at least 60 million conservatives have decades more practice, by now happening without thought like the muscle memory of professional athletes.

[empedocles]

2. 'those who condone and even applaud all [trumps] words' . . . are 'deranged'

Anyone else wonder, when putin and traitortrump meet one on one, how their small talk goes. I suspect one common joke, is how gullible [ha ha] their strongest 'base' supporters are - or even 'deranged'.

[Initech]

3. Actually I think conservatives have a bad case of LDS - liberal derangement syndrome.

They can't stand that liberals might have done some good for the US being in power for 8 years - and telling them that drives them insane.

[ck4829]

5. Classic response to anti-authoritarian attitudes is to label the anti-authoritarian as mentally ill

See also: Sluggish schizophrenia, drapetomania

It's just this combined with Trump's cult of personality.

[EricMaundry]

6. TDS Trump Denial Syndrome

Trump has it bad.