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I would argue that critics respond negatively to Trump because he never says anything positive. Supporters of Trump argue that 90% of media coverage about Trump is negative. I would ask why that number is not higher??
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Derangement_Syndrome
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Trump Derangement Syndrome is a term applied by some writers to describe critics of US President Donald Trump, including liberals and progressives, whom they accuse of responding to statements and political actions by Trump in a manner verging on the irrational, without regard to his actual position or action taken.
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Origin of term
The coinage is traced to Bush derangement syndrome, a phrase coined by Charles Krauthammer in 2003, during the presidency of George W. Bush, and defined by Krauthammer as "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency nay the very existence of George W. Bush."[1][2][3][4] Krauthammer, a harsh critic of Trump, defines Trump derangement syndrome as describing a Trump-induced "general hysteria" among the chattering classes, producing an "inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and... signs of psychic pathology" in the President's behavior.[4]
Use
Michael Davis points out that "conservatives and progressives appear equally susceptible."[1]
The term is widely applied by pro-Trump writers to critics of Trump, accusing them of responding negatively to nearly everything Trump says or does.[5][6][7]
The term has been used by some journalists critical of Trump to call for restraint.[8][9][10] Fareed Zakaria, who urged Americans to vote against Trump calling him a "cancer on American democracy, argues that every Trump policy "cannot axiomatically be wrong, evil and dangerous."[8] Adam Gopnik, who takes a strong anti-Trump position, responded to these assertions that it is a "huge and even fatal mistake for liberals (and constitutional conservatives) to respond negatively to every Trump initiative, every Trump policy, and every Trump idea." Arguing that Trump's opponents must instead recognize that the real problem is "Deranged Trump Self-Delusion," Gopnik defined the "Syndrome" as President Trump's "daily spasm of narcissistic gratification and episodic vanity." The real problem, according to Gopnik, is that President Trump is a man of "fears and fits" with an "appetite ... for announcing his authority through violence, a thing capable of an unimaginable resonance and devastation".[6]