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People have forgotten why they supported Trump in the first place because the cheering feels so good and drives out thought. He's changed but they can't/won't see it.

They too are infected with TDS, let's call it TDS b.

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'Trump Delusion Syndrome', I think.....

It's very pathetic to watch. They will be betrayed.

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Charles Krauthammer, psychiatrist and conservative political commentator defined the TDS syndrome as ~ the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the very existence of Donald Trump.

More accurately in an op-ed he later wrote that in addition to general hysteria about Trump ~ the "Trump Derangement Syndrome" was the inability of folks to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and signs of their own psychopathology.

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Well said Dennis. BTW, Krauthammer was in the wheelchair because his spinal cord being severed at c5 by hitting the bottom of the pool, head first, after a dive. He died from small intestine cancer.

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Is that Neo-Con in the wheel chair? Davros from Dr Who essentially?

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He's dead.

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He wasn't made immortal by being put into a robot body? If not, thank God.

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Janos - I agree. Have a few personal litmus tests for say, the first 100 days. If he doesn't pass, I'm off the Trump Train, but it'll still be going fast enough (See TDS b above) that I'll have to tuck and roll l as I jump off - pick myself up, dust myself off, and start walking.

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I take it that bringing in millions of Indians isn't on the list. As long as it's "legal", eh?

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No, Janos - that's on the list - in my book, "America First" applies to employment opportunity too. That said, it has to be on merit. After every capable, competent American is hired, then any other nationality. Is it favoritism? All else being equal, yes, but that's too bad. If we don't take care of our own first - we'll fail to thrive. See America 2025.

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Bravo, then. And prepare to disembark. There is no MAGA without putting America first. And there is no America first without putting Americans first.

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