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Marvin Folkertsma

On May 22, 1856, South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks entered the Senate chamber and approached Charles Sumner, who was sitting at his desk applying a postal frank to copies of his “Crime Against Kansas” speech, in which he excoriated Senator Andrew Butler for embracing “the harlot, Slavery.” Brooks beat the unsuspecting Sumner senseless with a dog-whip cane, sending him into convalescence for the next three years and ending what remained of “reasoned discourse” in the Senate. A half-decade later, the nation plunged into the Civil War, settling disputes on the battlefield that could not be addressed by a civilized exchange of views, which had been crushed by passions of the time.

Today’s passions explode from elites embracing harlots of hatred and denunciation sufficient to shock the sensibilities of any ante-bellum orator: fake severed heads, assassination threats, enough F-bombs to obliterate America’s enemies, along with endless verbal assaults against President Trump, saturate Progressive bellowing. All of which is insane, of course: if only H. P. Lovecraft (Mountains of Madness) were around to help us cope. Absent that, we always have the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, though its entries apply to individual cases and not to entire categories of people losing their minds. What, then, can be said? What explains such unbridled hatred of President Trump? Here are a few suggestions.

1. Trump is an outsider. Trump is not a normal Republican, or a normal Democrat, or a normal anything. He burst into the political scene late in his life, with few political obligations to anyone, least of all to entrenched elites in both political parties. Progressives have been accustomed to milquetoast Republicans for many decades; even Ronald Reagan didn’t depart from the script in ways that threatened the established order. And both Bushes, regardless of their occasionally bellicose policies, were eminently manageable; Bush I reneged on his No New Taxes pledge in a heartbeat and Bush II even expanded Medicare. Of course, both were still vilified, but, hey, that’s the leftist script. Plus, like most Republicans, they didn’t complain too much. Heck, they’re almost one of us! Trump isn’t.

2. Trump fights back. The last thing leftist mudslingers expected was a Republican who would bring a cannon to a gunfight. In fact, President Trump’s loose Twitter lips have punctured enough egos among his opponents to prod battalions of leftist potty-mouths to sue for copyright infringement. Donald Trump’s intemperate (and often ill-advised) responses to filthy onslaughts against him has had the effect of tarnishing his opponents’ brand names—especially in the media—by triggering even more extreme attacks. Before Trump, ideological hemophiliacs on the left bled fashionable resentment with every minor cut, every perceived slight; now, here comes a guy who declares elite media as the “enemy of the people.” His denouncers are in full Keith Olbermann mode, now, competing for an award that celebrates obscenity-screeching madness. Would be entertaining if it were not so sickening, so pathetic. And dangerous.

3. Trump loves America. He loves the country, that’s it. No apologies, no equivocations, no “on the other hands”—he stands up for America, for ordinary citizens, for every skin color, from sea to shining sea. He stiffs welfare-state besotted Euro-weenies, demands a level playing field in trade, and insists that government’s main concern should be for American citizens, and not foreign lawbreakers either in China or across the Rio Grande. Progressives have contempt for America. They spit on the flag, despise at least half of our citizens, trash our history, sneer at capitalism, denounce our founders, the Declaration, the Constitution, and dismiss most Americans with a blizzard of acronyms. And then they wonder why Trump won. Go figure.

4. Lib-Progs are spoiled rotten. They’ve had their way for the past half-century without serious interruption and still fully expect to transform the rest of the country to conform to the one-party systems they’ve clamped onto academia. A transformed America has no guns, no free speech, no boundaries, no conservatives, no Christians, a strictly controlled economic system, and a monstrous government in thrall to Lib-Progs’ lunatic weather cult and its grotesque commitment to infanticide. In short, totalitarianism. And then along came Trump.

5. Lib-Progs’ entitlement complex. Nothing in life is a matter of merit, achievement, or individual responsibility; everything is a matter of administratively determined entitlement, with an arc of history thrown in. Both ensure that the country rumbles along in a direction culminating in rule by an elite corps of Platonic guardians—liberal progressives controlling government, media, entertainment, academia, everything. In short, the country, history, owes them. And then along came Trump.

Although these suggestions offer hints to solving the Trump-hatred puzzle, one may still be left with a sense of incompletion, that something else still needs to be understood, an overlooked variable. Unfortunately, we may never understand such hatred completely, and even if we did, this knowledge may not thwart leftist plans for America. Normal cycles of politics will return liberals to government eventually; perhaps then, greater numbers of Americans besides the “deplorables” will more fully grasp what their self-described betters have in mind for them.

The only question is whether such a realization will arrive in time to save the country from those who despise Donald Trump and everything he stands for.

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While this is laudable and rational, there really is no explaining the demented, full tilt insane disorder of the never-trumpers and socialist libtards.

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While this is laudable and rational, there really is no explaining the demented, full tilt insane disorder of the never-trumpers and socialist libtards.

I vote for serious mental disorder.

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Trump is simply the excuse. This is the new normal for the left. From now on EVERY republican president will be treated this way and worse. Do not think that the left will suddenly start to act rationally when Trump leaves. They will not.

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Originally posted by mbinky:
Trump is simply the excuse. This is the new normal for the left. From now on EVERY republican president will be treated this way and worse. Do not think that the left will suddenly start to act rationally when Trump leaves. They will not.

Agree wholeheartedly, but I'll add one thought; The moral abyss that we call "the left" have turned a corner. If we fail to meet (and counter) them in that turn, we will lose this battle, and the results of that loss will be worse then any of us could fathom.
The time for meeting a clenched fist with a hug is looong past, we need to be prepared to do whatever it takes to come out on top. Whatever it takes...

Agreed. The mental instability in leftist adults that work, have money, and are by all accounts successful contributing (taxes, spending money to fuel the economy) is being passed to a generation of worthless offspring. These larval leftists seem to have all the time in the world to protest, attack the right, and generally offer nothing but hate and displeasure at not getting their way.

These cretin will absolutely ramp up their behavior to attack should a leftist make it back into the White House.

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Trump is simply the excuse. This is the new normal for the left. From now on EVERY republican president will be treated this way and worse. Do not think that the left will suddenly start to act rationally when Trump leaves. They will not.

Exactly right.

I can explain it in four words, "Trump won, Hillary lost".

Not looking forward to the future, but when the time comes and the Democratic party has another president elected I can only hope he or she will be disrespected and unfairly treated as President Trump has been. The democrats need to remember what goes around comes around. I for one will remember.

We have been far to measured in our responses. We need to bring back the Riot Act, and when black suited antifa thugs riot, implement it. I recall in a California history class that, around 1917, there was a riot in what is now known as the People's Park in Berkeley. The police used a bullhorn to announce that deadly for would be used of the rioters did not disperse. They did not. The police fired shotguns and rifles into the crowd, killing four, IIRC, and wounding four others. The next riot in Berkeley was in the 1960's.

The lefts behavior has been accepted and accommodated by many Republicans as well - making things even worse over the past 2 years.

Trumps arrival has certainly shaken the foundations of both parties.

Light reveals the darkness...

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Originally posted by mbinky:
Trump is simply the excuse. This is the new normal for the left. From now on EVERY republican president will be treated this way and worse. Do not think that the left will suddenly start to act rationally when Trump leaves. They will not.

I disagree.

I think the first suggestion in the OP is spot on- Trump is a complete outsider from establishment politics. It is not just the left that wants Trump to disappear. The D.C. Club, both Dems and Republicans, has a "certain" way of doing things and an outsider fucks all of that up, especially making various pockets lighter.

If Romney or Jeb was elected, I guarantee that that would have been treated a bit differently.

They hate Trump because he doesn’t play to the rules. Instead of doing politics WWF style where you talk a really good Game about fighting those horrible pols on the other side of the aisle, then go out for drinks where you figure out how you’re going to best spend the public treasury to your mutual advantage and screw the hicks in the hinterland, Trump has come in and singlemindedly pushed what he believes is best for America. If you don’t want your sorry butt flat run over, you’d best be on board and working in what he believes is the public’s interest, or at least faking it pretty darned convincingly. That doesn’t go over so well with the political vampires...

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Although these suggestions offer hints to solving the Trump-hatred puzzle, one may still be left with a sense of incompletion, that something else still needs to be understood, an overlooked variable. Unfortunately, we may never understand such hatred completely, and even if we did, this knowledge may not thwart leftist plans for America.

Yeah, it's the thwarting of the leftist plans for America.
The leftists have completely taken over the Democrat party, Hollywood, education, big technology, and even much of organized religion. They cannot completely win, but they have gotten much more bold.