by Mark Tapson
A deeply serious problem for Americans.
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When I was a kid, America fretted about “the heartbreak of psoriasis,” an advertising catch-phrase that raised awareness to an almost hysterical degree about a skin condition that legitimately afflicts millions of people. Today, a legitimate psychological condition is bringing misery to untold millions, perhaps even tens of millions, of Americans who need relief: Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS.
In the wake of the Right-wing rout of blue states in last week’s election, Democrat talking heads have devolved into angry finger-pointing and circular firing squads as they wrestle with understanding how it is possible that America could have rejected their agenda so resoundingly. Some Democrats have even begun to wonder if perhaps a little self-examination is in order, but it seems that far more progressives cannot quit externalizing the blame and directing their fury at anyone in a MAGA hat – even among their own friends and family members.
Unhinged examples of disappointed Kamala Harris supporters abound on the internet, especially at the Libs of TikTok account on X (formerly Twitter), which shares the emotional breakdowns of progressives who feel compelled, inexplicably, to exhibit their mental instability on social media for the wonder and entertainment of all.
Is it virtue-signaling? A catharsis of some kind? An existential cry into the void? Who knows, but these performances include such eyebrow-raising examples as the woman who shared a message for her family to “fuck off and choke on your turkey” at the holiday dinner she now won’t be attending. Another Kamala fan suggests to her fellow women that they should immediately divorce their Trump-supporting husbands, if not poison them.
These are actually pretty mild examples. There are of course many, many instances in which Democrat women and beta males literally cry and scream their election frustration into the camera, and those videos are rather amusing in a schadenfreude kind of way. But there are some that reveal a disturbing and distinctly not amusing degree of bitterness and hate.
An X user named Derek, for example, tweeted, “I have cut ties with my MAGA father and sister. I will never, ever speak to them again. I’ll spit on their graves. If you still hang out with your ‘friends’ or family that voted for fascism, you need a long look in the mirror.”
It sounds like the person who needs to take a long look in the mirror is Derek. If you look forward to spitting on the graves of your father and sister simply because they voted differently from you, you need professional help.
Sadly, this is par for the course for progressives whose consciousness is consumed with political activism, who subscribe to the old slogan that the “personal is the political,” and who have been whipped into a frenzy of hatred by the propagandist media and political leaders who relentlessly demonize their opponents as dangerous fascists, Nazis, deplorables, garbage, white supremacists, and so on.
As an extreme example of what this nonstop provocation can lead to: Libs of TikTok reported that a Minnesota man who had expressed his fear of a Trump-led government “inflicting their misguided beliefs” on his family, committed suicide after murdering his wife, his ex, and his two children after the election. Obviously there was something else deeply wrong with this man, but the panic-mongering to which he had been subjected by his Party’s messaging clearly was the trigger that pushed him over the edge.
The manipulative liars of the Left-wing media are the guiltiest of feeding this mental illness, which is what it begs to be called. A prime example is a recent episode of MSNBC’s The ReidOut, hosted by the race-mongering Joy Reid. She asked her guest, Yale University chief psychiatry resident Dr. Amanda Calhoun,
How do you interact with people you know voted for this? If you’re an LGBTQ person and know someone in your family voted essentially against your rights or you’re a woman, knowing this man was calling people the B word. JD Vance was literally calling Kamala Harris the trash. And said we’re going to take out the trash. I know a lot of black women were incredibly triggered by that. If you meet somebody and you know they voted for the people who called you trash, or if you’re Puerto Rican and you know someone voted that way, do you recommend just from a psychological standpoint being around them? We got the holidays coming up.
First, Reid’s claims about LGBTQ “rights” and Vance’s statements are complete distortions and even fabrications. Second, her question was obviously designed to lead her guest to suggest that progressives should refuse to make peace with Trump-supporting family members.
Dr. Calhoun did not disappoint. She replied to Reid, in part,
So if you are going through a situation where you have family members, close friends who you know have voted in ways that are against you, like what you said, against your livelihood, it is completely fine to not be around those people and tell them why. To say I have a problem with the way that you voted because it went against my very livelihood and I’m not going to be around you this holiday. I need to take some space for me… I think it may be essential for your mental health.
Again, this woman is a chief psychiatry resident at Yale University. Her professional advice is not that people set politics aside in order to heal and protect the far more important bonds of family and friendship, but that they confront and reject those family members and friends because you view them as enabling fascism, if not being fascists themselves.
Conservative schadenfruede over “liberal” meltdowns aside, the Left’s state of mind on this score is a deeply serious problem for Americans. A country cannot sustain itself internally when so many of its citizens are being driven to nurture a deep, unforgiving hatred and anger for their political opponents. This is a sickness that ruins friendships, that creates painful rifts in families, that divides us as antagonists, that leads to bloody division. This is what civil war does to a people.
That, of course, is the intention: to keep us at each other’s throats, to enmesh political conflict so deeply into the fabric of our personal relationships that we cannot extricate ourselves from it without war. This evil agenda must not be allowed to corrode us as Americans.
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Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-heartbreak-of-trump-derangement-syndrome/
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