The Real Reason for Trump Derangement Syndrome
Sep 21, 2019 15:57:32 #
Victor David Hansen
Donald Trump is waging a nonstop, all-encompassing war against progressive culture, in magnitude analogous to what 19th-century Germans once called a Kulturkampf.
As a result, not even former President George W. Bush has incurred the degree of hatred from the left that is now directed at Trump. For most of his time in office, Trump, his family, his friends, and his businesses have been investigated, probed, dissected, and constantly attacked.
In 2016 and early 2017, Barack Obama appointees in the FBI, CIA, and Department of Justice tried to subvert the Trump campaign, interfere with his t***sition, and, ultimately, abort his presidency. Now, congressional Democrats promise impeachment before the 2020 e******n.
The usual reason for such hatred is said to be Trump’s unorthodox and combative take-no-prisoners style. Critics detest his crude and unfettered assertions, his lack of prior military or political experience, his attacks on the so-called bipartisan administrative state, and his intent to roll back the entire Obama-era effort of “fundamentally t***sforming” the country leftward.
Certainly, Trump’s agenda of closing the border, using tariffs to overturn a half-century of Chinese mercantilism, and pulling back from optional overseas military interventions variously offends both Democrats and establishment Republicans.
Trump periodically and mercurially fires his top officials. He apparently does not care whether the departed write damning memoirs or join his opposition. He will soon appoint his fourth national security adviser within just three years.
To make things worse for his critics, Trump’s economy is booming as never before in the new 21st century: near record-low unemployment, a record number of Americans working, increases in workers’ wages and family incomes, low interest rates, low inflation, steady GDP growth, and a strong stock market.
Yet the real source of Trump derangement syndrome is his desire to wage a multifront pushback—politically, socially, economically, and culturally—against what might be called the elite postmodern progressive world.
Contemporary elites increasingly see nationalism and patriotism as passé. Borders are 19th-century holdovers.
The European Union, not the U.S. Constitution, is seen as the preferable model to run a nation. T***snational and global organizations are wiser on environmental and diplomatic matters than is the U.S. government.
The media can no longer afford to be nonpartisan and impartial in its effort to rid America of a reactionary such as Trump, given his danger to the progressive future.
America’s ancient sins can never really be forgiven. In a new spirit of iconoclasm, thousands of buildings, monuments, and statues dedicated to American sinners of the past must be destroyed, removed, or renamed.
A new America supposedly is marching forward under the banner of ending f****l f**ls, curbing the Second Amendment, redistributing income, promoting identity politics and open borders, and providing free college, free health care, and a******n on demand.
An insomniac Trump fights all of the above nonstop and everywhere. In the past, Republican presidents sought to slow the progressive t***sformation of America but despaired of ever stopping it.
No slugfest is too off-topic or trivial for Trump. Sometimes that means calling out former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick for persuading NFL stars to kneel during the national anthem. Huge, monopolistic Silicon Valley companies are special Trump targets. Sometimes Trump enters cul-de-sac Twitter wars with Hollywood has-beens who have attacked him and his policies.
Trump variously goes after A****a, political correctness on campus, the NATO hierarchy, the radical green movement, Planned Parenthood, American universities, and, above all, the media—especially CNN, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.
For all the acrimony and chaos—and prognostications of Trump’s certain failure—a bloodied Trump wins more than he loses. NATO members may h**e Trump, but more are finally paying their promised defense contributions.
In retrospect, many Americans concede that the Iran deal was flawed and that the Paris climate accord mere virtue-signaling. China was long due for a reckoning.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation proved fruitless and was further diminished by Mueller’s bizarrely incoherent congressional testimony.
Some of the most prominent Trump h**ers—Michael Avenatti, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Anthony Scaramucci, and Rep. Adam Schiff—either have been discredited or have become increasingly irrelevant.
Trump has so enraged his Democratic adversaries that the candidates to replace him have moved farther to the left than any primary field in memory. They loathe Trump, but in their abject hatred he has goaded the various Democratic candidates into revealing their support for the crazy Green New Deal, r********ns for s***ery, relaxed immigration policies, and trillions of dollars in new free stuff.
In a way, the left-wing Democratic p**********l candidates understand Trump best. If he wins his one-man crusade to stop the progressive project, they are finished, and their own party will make the necessary adjustments and then sheepishly drift back toward the center.
Donald Trump is waging a nonstop, all-encompassing war against progressive culture, in magnitude analogous to what 19th-century Germans once called a Kulturkampf.
As a result, not even former President George W. Bush has incurred the degree of hatred from the left that is now directed at Trump. For most of his time in office, Trump, his family, his friends, and his businesses have been investigated, probed, dissected, and constantly attacked.
In 2016 and early 2017, Barack Obama appointees in the FBI, CIA, and Department of Justice tried to subvert the Trump campaign, interfere with his t***sition, and, ultimately, abort his presidency. Now, congressional Democrats promise impeachment before the 2020 e******n.
The usual reason for such hatred is said to be Trump’s unorthodox and combative take-no-prisoners style. Critics detest his crude and unfettered assertions, his lack of prior military or political experience, his attacks on the so-called bipartisan administrative state, and his intent to roll back the entire Obama-era effort of “fundamentally t***sforming” the country leftward.
Certainly, Trump’s agenda of closing the border, using tariffs to overturn a half-century of Chinese mercantilism, and pulling back from optional overseas military interventions variously offends both Democrats and establishment Republicans.
Trump periodically and mercurially fires his top officials. He apparently does not care whether the departed write damning memoirs or join his opposition. He will soon appoint his fourth national security adviser within just three years.
To make things worse for his critics, Trump’s economy is booming as never before in the new 21st century: near record-low unemployment, a record number of Americans working, increases in workers’ wages and family incomes, low interest rates, low inflation, steady GDP growth, and a strong stock market.
Yet the real source of Trump derangement syndrome is his desire to wage a multifront pushback—politically, socially, economically, and culturally—against what might be called the elite postmodern progressive world.
Contemporary elites increasingly see nationalism and patriotism as passé. Borders are 19th-century holdovers.
The European Union, not the U.S. Constitution, is seen as the preferable model to run a nation. T***snational and global organizations are wiser on environmental and diplomatic matters than is the U.S. government.
The media can no longer afford to be nonpartisan and impartial in its effort to rid America of a reactionary such as Trump, given his danger to the progressive future.
America’s ancient sins can never really be forgiven. In a new spirit of iconoclasm, thousands of buildings, monuments, and statues dedicated to American sinners of the past must be destroyed, removed, or renamed.
A new America supposedly is marching forward under the banner of ending f****l f**ls, curbing the Second Amendment, redistributing income, promoting identity politics and open borders, and providing free college, free health care, and a******n on demand.
An insomniac Trump fights all of the above nonstop and everywhere. In the past, Republican presidents sought to slow the progressive t***sformation of America but despaired of ever stopping it.
No slugfest is too off-topic or trivial for Trump. Sometimes that means calling out former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick for persuading NFL stars to kneel during the national anthem. Huge, monopolistic Silicon Valley companies are special Trump targets. Sometimes Trump enters cul-de-sac Twitter wars with Hollywood has-beens who have attacked him and his policies.
Trump variously goes after A****a, political correctness on campus, the NATO hierarchy, the radical green movement, Planned Parenthood, American universities, and, above all, the media—especially CNN, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.
For all the acrimony and chaos—and prognostications of Trump’s certain failure—a bloodied Trump wins more than he loses. NATO members may h**e Trump, but more are finally paying their promised defense contributions.
In retrospect, many Americans concede that the Iran deal was flawed and that the Paris climate accord mere virtue-signaling. China was long due for a reckoning.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation proved fruitless and was further diminished by Mueller’s bizarrely incoherent congressional testimony.
Some of the most prominent Trump h**ers—Michael Avenatti, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Anthony Scaramucci, and Rep. Adam Schiff—either have been discredited or have become increasingly irrelevant.
Trump has so enraged his Democratic adversaries that the candidates to replace him have moved farther to the left than any primary field in memory. They loathe Trump, but in their abject hatred he has goaded the various Democratic candidates into revealing their support for the crazy Green New Deal, r********ns for s***ery, relaxed immigration policies, and trillions of dollars in new free stuff.
In a way, the left-wing Democratic p**********l candidates understand Trump best. If he wins his one-man crusade to stop the progressive project, they are finished, and their own party will make the necessary adjustments and then sheepishly drift back toward the center.
Sep 21, 2019 17:33:06 #
Jakebrake wrote:
Victor David Hansen br br Donald Trump is waging ... (show quote)
This article is spot on~
Sep 21, 2019 18:35:44 #
Anybody who thinks TDS is a thing has issues with bias and beliefs clouding their objectivity and personal moral values.
The person who can look the other way about Trump is no better in how they conduct their own lives, they live in a highly biased life as far as how they see things in general.
The person who can look the other way about Trump is no better in how they conduct their own lives, they live in a highly biased life as far as how they see things in general.
Sep 21, 2019 19:36:42 #
Jakebrake wrote:
Victor David Hansen br br Donald Trump is waging ... (show quote)
Nice grasp on reality Jake buddy... TDS & f**e news... what other delusional issues ya got...
Sep 22, 2019 07:25:57 #
billy a
Loc: South Florida
Jakebrake wrote:
Victor David Hansen br br Donald Trump is waging ... (show quote)
Victor Davis Hanson - The man is brilliant and worth getting to know.
Sep 22, 2019 09:53:30 #
Peewee
Loc: San Antonio, TX
billy a wrote:
Victor Davis Hanson - The man is brilliant and worth getting to know.
Amen!!!
Sep 22, 2019 10:37:55 #
woodguru wrote:
Anybody who thinks TDS is a thing has issues with bias and beliefs clouding their objectivity and personal moral values.
The person who can look the other way about Trump is no better in how they conduct their own lives, they live in a highly biased life as far as how they see things in general.
The person who can look the other way about Trump is no better in how they conduct their own lives, they live in a highly biased life as far as how they see things in general.
Ah woodsie, TDS is alive and well. Just look at nitwit Nadler & shifty Schiff. I rest my case~
Sep 22, 2019 11:44:19 #
Jakebrake wrote:
Victor David Hansen br br Donald Trump is waging ... (show quote)
Right on!!! That is up on my facebook page.
Sep 22, 2019 11:45:40 #
Sep 22, 2019 17:06:14 #
Jakebrake wrote:
This article is spot on~
Victor Davis-Hanson is a national treasure. One reason the left h**es President Trump so much is they have become so poisoned by their h**e, they have let their masks slip.
Sep 22, 2019 21:46:48 #
woodguru wrote:
Anybody who thinks TDS is a thing has issues with bias and beliefs clouding their objectivity and personal moral values.
The person who can look the other way about Trump is no better in how they conduct their own lives, they live in a highly biased life as far as how they see things in general.
The person who can look the other way about Trump is no better in how they conduct their own lives, they live in a highly biased life as far as how they see things in general.
Projecting again, I see.
Sep 23, 2019 09:42:27 #
Navigator wrote:
Projecting again, I see.
Projection is all woodsie seems to have in rebuttal in every post he submits~
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