Morning Glory: Trump Derangement Syndrome and the Trump jury

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Indeed, even what appears to be an obsession with Trump is, for some, simply an economic choice.
63% : I've been telling my broadcast audience for two months that a conviction was coming because the trial judge tipped his hand very early and has done everything in his power to "get Trump."
60% : They just want Trump in cuffs.
60% : They just want Trump in cuffs.
56% : That's objectively not true, of course, but they will argue that "Yes, Trump is!" or that at least that he's close.
49% : The deep hatred of Trump among those with TDS is really quite startling to observe or hear, especially for the first time from someone you may like or respect.
48% : To this manic desire among TDSers to "stop Trump," add in the dangerous lure of "the call of significance" which Commentary Magazine Executive Editor Abe Greenwald articulated in that magazine's Wednesday podcast.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP"I just don't see," Greenwald explained, "how a New York jury can resist the opportunity -- in their eyes a world historic opportunity -- to convict Donald Trump and, in their mind, shape the course of the upcoming presidential election and American history."
46% : MSNBC producers know a good slice of their relatively small audience must be fed daily some extravagant venting about Trump.
42% : Many folks commenting on this or any other column about Trump have TDS.JURY BEGINS DELIBERATIONS IN NY V. TRUMP TRIAL
42% : Merchan will never regain whatever reputation he had for fairness, though he will often hear going forward from the TDS-afflicted how glad they were that he bent the rule of law to try and injure Trump.
41% : They know they can't put on the other point of view much less a hardcore MAGA Trump supporter.
40% : I have tentatively approached some folks who voted for President Biden in 2020 with the question whether they will consider voting for Trump in 2024.
39% : A mention of Trump sets a TDSer off of course, sends them into a rant or over a rhetorical cliff and sometimes they manifest their addiction by raising their voice, clenching fists, resorting to profanity or vulgarity or using ALL CAPS!
38% : Even if obliged to give up the ground that Trump hasn't committed genocide or mass murder of innocents, they will append some qualifier to that admission and mutter something about "lack of opportunity.
37% : Too many in their audience are repulsed by any praise of Trump or his record.
36% : The problem for the country is that too many people are emotionally invested in "put Trump in cuffs" regardless of the facts or the law.
36% : They obsess about Trump and turn every topic to him.
32% : But everyone with "TDS" thinks Trump should be convicted.
30% : Trump isn't a "threat to democracy," and isn't, as DeNiro asserted repeatedly, "never going to leave!"
29% : Maybe Trump disintermediated them from power, influence or money.
29% : Not liking Trump, or even really, really disliking him -- disliking him to a level you have never felt about a politician -- is not TDS.
28% : AS FORMER PRESIDENT BLASTS CHARGES AS 'RIGGED'But the marker of TDS is not an opinion on the guilt or innocence of Trump in this proceeding.
27% : Maybe they got the short end of a deal somewhere along the line, and they are transferring their anger over that perceived injustice on to Trump.
27% : They don't like Trump at all, for any of a number of reasons.
23% : DeNiro is not alone in voicing their limitless hatred of Trump.
23% : Thinking Trump guilty isn't an insane position and can be in many cases put down to simple ignorance of the law.
23% : Trump breaks people.
22% : If there is more than one TDSer, it's going to be a rough time for any juror who thinks Trump is getting railroaded and that the prosecution didn't come close to carrying their burden of proof.
21% : They will just have heard or watched or read enough to conclude that paying off Stormy Daniels was illegal and Trump got caught doing that.
20% : Robert DeNiro admitted to TDS in his very weird meltdown outside the courthouse Tuesday when the actor proclaimed he knows Trump is guilty.
18% : The TDS-afflicted seem to me to be simply addicted to hating Trump.
14% : But when pushed to face the real choice -- Biden or Trump -- they are either undecided or already in the "Trump is better than 'old Joe.'
8% : The only figures from the modern era remotely close to Trump in the ability to trigger sustained rage among his or her political opponents are Richard Nixon and Hillary Clinton.

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