Trump Projection Disorder. A dangerous, violent strain of political hatred that has become the province of a too-large segment of the left, including the left wing of the Democrat Party.
Miranda Devine, a Pulitzer Prize-quality columnist who will never win that prize because she is a conservative (Victor Davis Hanson is another one) has written a superb column describing this condition and what it causes.
You can read it all by clicking here. But let me show you a particularly worthwhile excerpt below:
If you thought Trump Derangement Syndrome was bad in the president’s first term, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
This time around, it’s morphed into something far more lethal. Like a wounded animal that’s been cornered, electorally challenged Democrats are desperate and dangerous. They make TDS look like a quaint affectation.
In the spirit of “If you can’t beat him, join him,” they’re trying to imitate Trump, but they’re imitating a foul-mouthed cartoon villain version of a Hitlerian dictator that they have convinced themselves he is.
TDS Redux has become Trump Projection Disorder. Everything they’ve accused him of being they’ve now become, Nazi tattoos and all.
In Maine, they are running a Senate candidate who had a skull-and-crossbones Nazi death symbol tattooed onto his chest, described himself as an “Antifa supersoldier” and reportedly recruited and trained members of a far-left paramilitary group, The Socialist Rifle Association, which has links to Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin.
While Democrats and their media handmaidens try to portray Graham “I’m not a secret Nazi” Platner as a plainspoken MAGA-coded “Maine Oyster Farmer,” he’s just the usual sham impersonator. In fact, he is a child of privilege who attended The Hotchkiss School, a boarding prep school in Connecticut where tuition costs more than $75,000 a year.
But the party that launched cancel culture is standing by him. Bernie Sanders says his Nazi tattoo is a distraction: “I think what we have got to do as a nation is not focus on a tattoo,” he told Axios last week.
Sure enough, Platner remains the front-runner in the Democratic primary. The latest polls have him 34 points ahead of Maine governor Janet Mills.
In Virginia, Dems are running a candidate as the state’s attorney general who said he wanted to murder a Republican lawmaker and his small children. That GOPer is no longer in politics.
But Jay Jones is still on the Democratic ticket to be Virginia’s top cop alongside gubernatorial aspirant Abigail Spanberger, who won’t say a bad word about him, let alone disavow his candidacy.
The ex-CIA operative is running against the black Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, and the NAACP is backing the white woman.
In New York, the Democrat most likely to become mayor posed proudly with a radical imam and purported unindicted coconspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing who has called for jihad in “garbage can” America ever since.
Zohran Mamdani described Siraj Wahhaj as a “pillar” of the community in his social media post. But the Uganda-born democratic socialist has been shedding crocodile tears all week because he caught a little blowback for his embrace of the terror apologist just 24 years after 9/11 traumatized the city he aims to lead.
“Islamophobia is something that is endemic to politics across this country,” Mamdani complained to MSNBC over the weekend.
“And we have seen it normalized. We have seen it accepted.”
Poor Zohran. He aimed a giant middle finger at all the New Yorkers who died on 9/11, but he’s the victim.
An excellent – terribly disturbing, but excellent – compilation, demonstrating where the far left and Democrats (two terms that have become more and more synonymous) are.
Thank you, Ms. Devine. Thank you for this fact-filled wakeup call to people who may have allowed their hatred of Trump (and, more generally, Republicans) to overtake their sense of basic reality.
Let’s hope it generates a major league re-think for at least some of them.
