Washington's Incurable Case of Trump Derangement Syndrome

Like Shakespeare's King Lear, Donald Trump is a "man more sinned against than sinning." Trump's enemies invariably exceed him in excesses. They accuse him of dictatorial behavior even as they seek to turn America into a left-wing authoritarian regime. The wags who dubbed their feverish hatred of him "Trump Derangement Syndrome" were right

The FBI raid on Trump's home amounts to a new insurance policy, one against a future presidency

• The hopelessly politicized senior leaders at the FBI and the Justice Department have learned nothing from their utterly discredited investigation of Trump as a supposed Russian agent
• From the start, the ruling class treated him like a foreign occupier of the country and would whip themselves up into a lather over his most prosaic exercises of presidential power
• They now believe that he is so dangerous he deserves fewer due process protections than a mobster
• In the grip of Trump Derangement Syndrome, the elites always overreach, turning Trump into a populist martyr
  1. It was forever telling us that Trump violated “norms,” while excusing all manner of abnormality in official Washington, starting with an “intelligence community” that falsely accused a manifestly patriotic president of collusion with Russia while shielding Democrats who actually disseminated its disinformation.
  2. But the ruling class feels no need to extend even the most minor courtesies to a former president because it sees Trump as irredeemably illegitimate.
  3. The same reckless and warped mentality that drove Comey and company to entertain the most ludicrous collusion claims against Trump produced this grossly gratuitous raid.
  4. The FBI’s treatment of Trump is akin to what we see in the crudest autocracies, where the moment a politician loses power, he finds himself a hunted enemy of the state and must either fight to reclaim his office or suffer prison and death.
  5. Former FBI head James Comey, after he got popped for these extreme measures, claimed disingenuously that he wasn’t investigating Trump directly but only his campaign and had an obligation to protect it from foreign influence.
  6. Like Shakespeare’s King Lear, Donald Trump is a “man more sinned against than sinning.” Trump’s enemies invariably exceed him in excesses. 

https://spectator.org/washingtons-incurable-case-of-trump-derangement-syndrome/