When I re-read this Charles Krauthammer column from December 2003, from his book, Things That Matter, you realise that Trump Derangement Syndrome is not new and not a phenomenon reserved for Trump.
It is for anyone right of centre who defeats the liberal left.
The left regards a defeat as a defeat of their human rights.
TDS is not so much as, n’or as sophisticated as something psychological as a syndrome or mind virus, as it is a garden variety tantrum.
That is all it is. A tantrum. A taking the bat and ball and going home, tantrum
In fact to call it a syndrome credits it with too much analysis and overthinks what’s really going on.
It is simply your typical suburban, Woolworths, aisle 4, toys out of the cot, food from the high chair, thrashing about tantrum of a 3 year old on the floor of the supermarket when they can’t get their way and denied their pleasure…