To the editor:

Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) has been bandied about for a while. I’ve understood its intended sentiment by the accusatory people attacking detractors of 47. However, from the start I considered the possibility of its being an ambiguous moniker.

I understood that it was aimed at the people who are adamantly and habitually opposed to the person with a laundry list of human, business, and political failings.

What I didn’t understand was how his defenders thought it wise to coin a phrase that put the words “Trump” and “derangement” side by side. To the casual listener like me beyond the grip of the cult, this syndrome has the potential to swing two ways. It could also be interpreted as a cry for help from someone wanting to escape the grip of MAGA.

So we’ve existed in our separate, partisan camps, each side hearing what they wanted to hear in the accusation/admission of what Trump derangement syndrome means to them.

Now the Right is proposing a clarification of what they believe TDS to be. To that end they want TDS to be identified as a mental illness suffered by people on the Left. (What sophomoric, frat party braintrust came up with this idiotic nonsense?)

The Left is accused of being deranged because it has seen the man for what he really is: a liar, a cheat, a grifter, a failed business man, a felon, etc.

Meanwhile, the Right conveniently ignores the name-calling, the unhinged tangents, the lawlessness, the childish plans for revenge, the thin-skinned attacks on the media, and all of 47’s foibles mentioned in the previous sentence.

Who are the deranged ones now?

Obviously it’s the obsequious apologists whose loyalty to the cult has them spinning every deranged thing the master does. It’s also known as projection.

Yet those of us in the opposing camp are being diagnosed by the right with a mental illness…?

Physicians, heal thyselves.

Keith R. Klawitter

Morgan