You guys are a broken record. Every single time you guys present the liberal side of every issue and they are always wrong. You have been certain that every BS scandal and accusation would be "the one". Yet here we are, a sham of an impeachment continues and the Senate can finally call actual witnesses. They are no longer hiding behind closed doors like the House did. Trump Derangement Syndrome gone wild!!!
I do believe some Trump supporters conflate bullying and strength. Trump certainly talks like a bully. My problem with this persona is I do equate it with weakness and insecurity. I think we should take very seriously the degree of insecurity the man displays. I should think we would be concerned with what we see, given that we handed him the highest office in our government. Doesn't everybody notice this by now, this man who seems to worry only about what others think of him? That's human, but he takes it to an unhealthy degree. He cannot hide his deep insecurities. Don't have to be an armchair psychologist to see that. It's a signature characteristic of Donald Trump.
But I think perhaps his bullying persona, his tough guy persona, is seen as strength by some of his supporters, perhaps in proportion to who is being verbally slammed by Trump. Trump supporters should understand this tough guy bully is just an act. It's the quite transparent insecurity that reveals the truth behind that act. It's so transparent. How can you ignore that degree of insecurity, given his position?
I've never known a bully exterior that was not masking a coward at heart.
Further, the alternative reality Trump and his allies in the media have created is truly diabolical, with its elements of the press as the enemy, the news as Lie, the Deep State aligned against the people. They have driven it home until it is believed in by millions. And that's what's diabolical about it. To deliberately foster belief in a lie, that likely has the staying power to continue to manipulate the minds and actions of a considerable portion of the electorate for a long time. Trump may be the star of this fiction now, it's his cocoon, his weaponized alternative history, but it can be utilized by other power mongers, other demagogues. Or simply exist as a huge psychological cesspool conditioning beliefs that generate hate and division for generations more. We will have Trump, Barr, Giuliani, Nunes, Hannity and Co, for helping create this sickness.
Even without conspiracy tween Trump and Putin, could Putin have possibly asked for more than this? Seems to me it may even be the seed of our demise as a nation. I don't know how one deprograms a cult, when the cult is this huge. Trumpsters have been hoodwinked, how do you help them realize this? It will have to start with Trumpsters being honest with themselves.
And you know what? Realizing all this about Trump does not require anything called Trump Derangement Syndrome. It simply requires knowing right from wrong, inner strength from massive insecurity, a good heart from cruelty.
I honestly believe the true TDS is the Trump cult itself.