Trump Hatred Has Become Mental Illness In Some
By John J. Duncan Jr.
duncanj@knoxfocus.com
For many years, people used to describe Richard Nixon as the most hated man in American politics. But the hatred for Nixon pales in comparison to the hatred that many millions seem to have for Donald Trump.
Nixon did not have to face the 24-hour news cycle and the many channels we have today.
I am just 13 months younger than Trump, and both of us are overweight. He has to be the strongest, toughest man I know because I don’t know anyone else who could have withstood the constant public abuse he has had thrown at him every single minute for the last eight years.
There is even a commonly used or at least easily understood mental illness now called Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Many on the Left are attempting to cover this hatred up now by saying that we need to tone down the rhetoric and have a kinder, gentler campaign.
But then they go on, sometimes in the next breath, to blame the animosity on Trump himself.
MSNBC is in a brief bind because of the failed assassination attempt on Trump’s life. Their programming for the last several years has been an almost 24-hour around-the-clock bashing of Trump and his supporters.
Anyone who has watched hosts like Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, or the “ladies” on The View has been brainwashed by hundreds or maybe even thousands of hours of Trump hatred.
These women and their fanatical fans probably need psychiatric treatment or should at least pray for forgiveness for the hatred that is in their hearts.
Unfortunately, I have seen replays of the sick Whoopi Goldberg saying she would vote for Biden even if he “pooped in his pants,” and Joy Reid has referred to Trump several times as “Hitler,” saying she would vote for Biden even if he was in a coma.
I didn’t vote for Bill Clinton, Barack Obama or Joe Biden, but I never felt hatred for any of them. In fact, they were all nice to me, and I was always nice to them. I got along very well with almost all the Democrats with whom I served in Congress.
I just never have been able to understand the hatred in the hearts and minds of many on the far Left.
Perhaps it was explained by the brilliant late columnist, Charles Krauthammer, who started out as a liberal. He wrote that you can understand American politics when you realize that liberals “think conservatives are evil.”
The longtime Washington Post columnist George Will has said and written that there is probably less freedom of speech on college campuses today than in any place in our society.
I do know that most universities have become leftist brainwashing factories to such an extent that well-known conservatives have to have extra security in the rare times they are asked to speak on college campuses.
Losing or retiring Republican elected officials are almost never hired as professors unless they are harsh critics of the Republican Party or of Trump, such as the University of Virginia’s hiring of former Rep. Liz Cheney.
Meanwhile, Harvard University hired two of the worst mayors in this country, Lori Lightfoot of Chicago and Bill de Blasio of New York. Columbia hired Hillary Clinton and the University of California at Berkley hired the recalled (aka kicked out of office) District Attorney Chesa Boudin – all leftists.
Left-wing students have knocked over recruiting tales and torn up literature of conservative student organizations and shouted down conservative speakers. It is now almost unheard of for a conservative to be asked to give a commencement speech because so many university officials are liberal and/or they know conservatives would be treated so rudely.
Finally, several years ago, former Congressman Phil Roe came to me on the floor of the House and said he just could not believe the hateful things people would write in emails.
A publication I had never heard of, Karbon Magazine, had a recent article entitled “The dehumanizing effect of technology.” It quoted the Huffington Post as follows: “Human beings are losing their ability to communicate in person. To smile at each other. To converse. To enjoy a meal together without looking at their smartphones…This is a tremendous loss that cannot be quantified.”
We have just about addicted people under 50 years old or so to computers of all types, and with less face-to-face human contact each passing year, it apparently has become easier to hate.
I wrote in one of my newsletters several years ago that I wish we would start having at least some technology-free days in our schools so students would have to use their own brains instead of the brains of some machine.
