I love that “Trump Derangement Syndrome” has become this GOTCHA phrase for the Redcap Bridgade.

The original version was Clinton Derangement Syndrome in the 90s, when the same people wrote whatever in their dream journals & treated it as fact

The pure projection is breathtaking
There was also Obama Derangement Syndrome, as well as “Black Man Bad.”

Both lit up the fact that half the country had an actual stroke over nothing more than a black man in the White House.

Even their “clever” attacks are just petty I’M RUBBER YOU’RE GLUE schoolyard revenge.
Not to put to fine a point on it, but the right can’t meme.

Cruelty is their only comedy.

So they just reverse the ways people laughed at them, knowing they never really had much to be upset about, & fling it back, because surely we’re just as disingenuous as they were.
American conservatism is one of the most intellectually & morally bankrupt movements in the history of the world, & I don’t say that lightly

They stand for nothing. They know nothing. They love nothing but money & pain

Which is why they can’t even come up with their own attacks
The right’s real victory hasn’t been over the left but over memory & truth

Everything goes down the memory hole now. Even our institutional norms & recent history. Nothing is real, even love is fake news

Whatever happens in Nov, we can’t elect that back into the toothpaste tube
To even remember, with full context, what happened 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago is now a radical act.

To remember old jokes at the expense of conservatives is to go against their narrative of having been eternally the masters of this nations’ hearts

But they’re not. Never have been
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