The Wet Market as Wetware: Trump Derangement Syndrome

If the coronavirus was sent by God to wake people up, it has failed to wake one group. It seems to have had no noticeable effect on those suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome.

I see left-pinioned people repeatedly berating and blaming Trump for the virus. What could be more irrational? The virus is everywhere, and did not begin in the US.

Possibly their point is that he should have acted more decisively sooner? They love to repeat the false charge that Trump called the virus a “hoax.”

Yet this too makes no sense. He acted more decisively and sooner than most other leaders: faster than the Netherlands, or Sweden; sooner and stronger than Johnson in the UK or Trudeau in Canada. He acted more decisively than the WHO. Yet even though most of the derangers I hear from are Canadian, they always complain about Trump, never Trudeau.

It is all a puzzlement. What is it about Trump that makes these people insane?

I think the key is in the substance of their chief complaints. Narcissists habitually say the opposite of the truth, and these people are acting like narcissists.

Their chief complaint seems to be that Trump lies.

Their real problem is that he tells the truth.

Trump speaks more straightforwardly than other politicians, says what he thinks. He also regularly keeps promises.

They call him a bully.

Their real problem is that he will not be bullied.

The press, the “deep state,” and the “experts” cannot cow him.

Combine these traits, and he is fantastically dangerous to anyone who knows they are up to no good.