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Every accusation is a confession.
It's always projection.
It's funny how the right lifted "Clinton Derangement Syndrome" and tried to apply it to every valid criticism of donnie. And even still, their derangement over both Clintons knows no bounds...of course, they also have a bad case of Obama Derangement Syndrome like you wouldn't believe.
Of course, none of their craziness over Hillary and Obama has nothing to do with their misogyny or racism...
Trump Derangement Syndrome was centrist liberals becoming obsessed with, and performatively appalled by, every single thing Trump said and did. About 11-15% of Trump voters were Obama voters and a lot of Obama voters sat out the Trump/Hillary election.
Hillary drives Trumpers more insane than anyone though, it's hilarious because they're like the only group she has these mental powers over. At least Trump has charisma and ability to perform for a crowd, it makes sense he generates the reactions he does. With Hillary it's like... there's nothing there, she's robotically trying to relate to average people, she's not funny or relatable or anything, yet she drives them insane.
Get some new material please.
That's just what it is. In 2016 it wasn't conservative media that Trumpers were sharing, it was compilations of mainstream media reactions to his persona, effectively the creation of the Trump political brand was liberal media going insane over his every single tweet. This was in part to avoid addressing the Clinton/Bernie drama, because it was clear the class-oriented policies of the socialist-leaning candidate weren't convenient for the Democrat donor base. Trump was turned in to a perpetual ratings-generator for the media, a scapegoat for the do-nothing centrists, and a smokescreen for every reactionary Republican policy. Trump's tweets and moral outrage always got more coverage than the tax breaks, that's Trump Derangement Syndrome in practice.
Trumpers of course memed it whenever they could, but if you take their frothing circlejerk notion of it as the true thing, you're basically holding a concept covered in maga jizz as the standard and getting it on yourself in the process.
What drama? Clinton got more votes.
Also it’s hard to take anything you say seriously when you’re casually referencing TDS.
If "casually referencing TDS" makes you uncomfortable you're definitely taking something too seriously. Dismissing the Clinton/Bernie is basically ignoring the reason Trump won, which is what the entire Democrat party base has been doing since Jan 2016. It was like a constant feedback loop of pushing Trump to the top of relevancy then being appalled by it. It goes back to what I said about how everyone in power basically took advantage of Trump. It's a similar thing with how Democrat PACs give money to some of the most insane Republican primary candidates, it allows these wackos to boost their profiles even further, and then the Democrats can have something to be appalled by and secure their "return to normalcy" position. "Look how crazy that guy {we gave money to) is! We're not him so you need to vote for us!"