I have a great actual example of Trump Derangement Syndrome. I listen to a podcast called 'On Belief' on and off. Their latest episode featured a
deranged Yehudi named Steve Hassan.
Hassan is an extremely suggestible man from Queens who stupidly fell for the Moon 'Unification Church' Cult and their practices of using thots to draw emotionally vacant men into their so-called church, which is only marginally more legitimate than Falun Gong. After being kidnapped and mentally abused by some of his own people for a few days until he gave up his new strongly-held beliefs, he has made a career from talking up the intense special power that cults have, as if these aren't exactly the same techniques used by his people's media and political elements.
Basically his 'qualification' for talking about cults is that he was a happy member of one that gets social disapproval, until he was kidnapped and driven back into one that is approved of by the powers that be.
Simon and Schuster has published a new book by him, that while broadly in line with the media zeitgeist is so exceptional it is only getting reviews in a few oligarchal publications like the WaPo, and some of them are even critical.
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An actual quote from the S&S blurb:
http://archive.li/fHTyQ#selection-1355.0-1361.249
He speculates in the podcast that Trump learned how to use effective communication techniques, which he refers to by the jargon term 'neurolinguistic programming' or 'NLP', from pickup artist videos on Youtube. This is.. an interesting concept.
EDIT: AMAZING. Listened further on and he alleges that Mike Pence is part of a 'Dominionist' conspiracy. This is a concept whereby actual Christian believers seek to restore the Christian principles to the nations that constitute the USA. His evidence for this? Mike Pence is a) a politician b) professes to be a Christian c) Dominionists argue that subversion of broken societies makes sense. Meanwhile, to any reasonable person, the fact that Pence is an elected GOP politician proves he has no interest in promoting Christian values. If he had any principles he wouldn't have reached higher office.
EDIT2: Oh boy, this piece of work really brings it together at the end. First, he defends 'deprogramming' kidnappings. He's very specific though. a) they have to be endorsed by a judge, who agrees that the views of the person being kidnapped are at odds with the powers that be b) the 'deprogrammers' cannot directly inflict physical pain- they must rely on emotional manipulation, or physical pain applied by the agents of the state. And there has to be 'scientific evidence' for why this should occur, to give judges an excuse. He explicitly states that he pursued higher learning specifically to make up 'evidence' to support a return of deprogramming.
This guy honestly wants to kidnap people who still wear Trump hats and beat them on the feet with twigs while making them watch NPR 24 hours a day for a week without sleeping. This is hilarious, this is so much funnier than even the Red Flag laws that will only be used against Trump supporters that Trump has put off until his reelection.