There’s a lot of talk these
days about Trump Derangement Syndrome — the media’s incessant inability to talk
about anything but Trump, their determination to paint every action Trump takes
as simultaneously idiotic and malevolent, their utter unwillingness to report
on anything remotely resembling positive news for Trump. But the truth is that
the media and the Left don’t suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome — they
merely suffer from Republican Derangement Syndrome. That’s the broader
classification under which Bush Derangement Syndrome and Trump Derangement
Syndrome fall. It’s not just Trump they hate — it’s Republicans generally.
That’s perfectly obvious from
the treatment of Vice President Mike Pence by the Left. Pence has been
castigated as a theocratic madman, a “holy terror,” in the words of New York
Times columnist Frank Bruni, who asked, “Are you sure you want to get rid of
Donald Trump?” Then there are authors Michael D’Antonio and Peter Eisner, who
argue in their new book The Shadow President that Pence is
“the most successful Christian supremacist in American history.” It’s become a
meme on the Left that should Pence accede to the presidency, he would
immediately impose The Handmaid’s Tale.
And that should be
unsurprising. The same Left castigated John McCain as a radical, Mitt Romney as
a racist, sexist, bigot homophobe. No matter which Republican follows Trump, we
can be sure that the Left will dishonestly look back to the glory days of
Trump, when Republicans were “truly moderate.”
All of which is why Trump is
president in the first place. Republicans looked at Joe Biden suggesting Mitt
Romney — Mitt Freaking Romney! — wanted to put black people back in chains, and
figured that no matter who they nominated, they’d be castigated as the worst
people on earth. They figured they might as well nominate a guy who wouldn’t
take such attacks sitting down — they might as well get behind a
counterpuncher. And nobody was better at counterpunching during the campaign —
above and below the belt — than Trump.
Republican Derangement
Syndrome is also why large portions of Trump’s base will never abandon him:
many Republicans rightly believe that criticism of Trump isn’t good faith shock
at his aberrant behavior, but the latest convenient excuse for ripping on a
powerful Republican. Get rid of Trump, the logic goes, and they’ll just do this
to Pence — and at least Trump fights back.
So, if the Left truly wants
Republicans to “come around to reason,” they’d better first name a few
Republicans they think are reasonable — and those Republicans had better not be
Jennifer Rubin and Ana Navarro and David Frum. Otherwise, Republicans are likely
to say, rightly, that the name at the top of the ticket doesn’t seem to matter
very much to Democrats, so why exactly ought they take Democratic complaints
seriously in the first place? If Nikki Haley is George W. Bush is Donald Trump,
why not just stick with the dude that won the White House in the first place?
Ben Shapiro, The Daily Wire, 24-8-2018
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