Trump Derangement syndrome explained

Look at the history

While the modern socialistic state started with Woodrow Wilson, it certainly went into high gear under Franklin Roosevelt. Cold comfort that FDR’s 1932 opponent—Herbert Hoover—sounded even more Leftist on the campaign trail. But, the voters blamed Hoover for the Depression, and he was also a supporter, albeit weaker by then, of Prohibition. In other words, he didn’t have a chance.

FDR unleashed all sorts of agencies and programs, but it was our entry into World War II, and the resultant explosion of related economic activity that ended the Depression. Not that too many Americans had the luxury of being able to reflect on all that at the time.

FDR’s New Deal was followed by JFK’s New Frontier, and that was followed by Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. Untold trillions of dollars were spent on social programs, while our diplomats, spies, and military geniuses were trying to remake the entire world into a paradise of democracy. But then it all came tumbling down with the oil embargo, the fall of Saigon, stagflation, Watergate, and the Iran hostages.

There was a bit of a conservative interlude with Reagan, even if he never did much to control government spending. And that was followed by the first Boomer president…Bill Clinton. If Clinton spoke of JFK as his idol, it was FDR that he really emulated.

Like Roosevelt, Clinton was a playboy, and like Roosevelt, he married an ugly woman in an effort to establish his credibility…or something. Of course, both of them continued their philandering—with props to FDR for being able to carry on like that even when disabled. Clinton was followed by the neocon Bush, and the poseur Obama.

In other words, from 1932 to the present day, our presidents have been mostly political hacks. And, except for any number of so-called “landmark” events, not a whole lot has improved. In fact, one can draw a pretty apt analogy to the public school system, with its endless bureaucracy and its “clients,” the students passing through, hopefully learning something along the way.

As to the schools, eventually people do the audit, and discover that the kids seem to be learning less, while the bureaucracy spends more and more. Any “reform” inevitably involves more money, and not only does nothing ever improve, it generally gets worse with time.

Now, along comes a non-politician who wants to shake things up. And, he has the temerity to defeat the Chosen One—Hillary Clinton. You know, Bill’s “co-president,” whose resume consists of dozens of fancy titles, and almost no actual accomplishments. Think of it as the ideal Boomer curriculum vitae. As would be revealed years later, she failed the DC Bar exam—more difficult than the one in Arkansas, but still regarded as one of the easiest in the country.

The main reason Trump is hated by the Establishment is that he has exposed it as a corrupt, incompetent enterprise, that has somehow fooled millions for decades. True believing liberals must face the fact that all their marvelous social welfare agencies have been big on virtue signaling, and small on measurable results.

Poor fools. They forgot the lesson of Richard Daley, the corrupt, but effective multi-term mayor of Chicago: People would forgive the corruption if things worked.

So, Trump Derangement syndrome is just another version of “Kill the Messenger.”