Source: Washington Post
by Megan McArdle
“During the first Trump administration, his supporters claimed to have identified a new psychiatric malady: ‘Trump derangement syndrome.’ This condition primarily infected progressives in mainstream institutions such as media and academia. It caused an abrupt loss of perspective any time the subject of Donald Trump came up. … This was not only unhealthy for the country but also made it harder to push back on Trump’s worst ideas, as liberals became the boy who cried wolf. So, this time, the task for Trump’s opponents is to keep their heads and calmly highlight the downsides of his policies, rather than issuing nonstop warnings that the dark night of fascism is descending on America. The task for Trump’s supporters, meanwhile, is not to develop their own variant of Trump derangement syndrome.” (02/10/25)