More than four months into the disaster that is the Biden presidency, it’s time to consider the mass psychosis responsible for inflicting this progressive (or is it regressive?) plague on America.  Recall that opposition to Trump was never really about policy.  Trump championed border security, a strong military, lower taxes, more American jobs, and an end to needless wars.  No opponent, from any Party, could come out against any of those things on principle.  So they had to make it personal.  It wasn’t Trump’s positions they objected to, it was his “tone.”  He was too crude, too rude, too inexperienced, and too disinterested to be President.  This also was subterfuge.  It wasn’t Trump’s tone that bothered them, it was his very presence.  The real problem the Resistance had with Trump was his connection to the people, and their understanding that, as a non-politician, he actually meant to do what he promised to do.  Understand, it’s perfectly acceptable for a politician to pretend to be a populist.  They’re happy to promise to “speak truth to power” as long as they have the power, because they know, once the election’s over they can go back to crooked business as usual.  Trump didn’t play that.  When he said he’d be the voice of the forgotten man, he really meant it.  That made him a threat to both sides.  In addition to Trump’s threat to the status quo, the resistance to Trump by Democrats had another dynamic.  They’d had eight years of the Chosen One, Il Duce Obama, and were anticipating having Hillary finish the job of destroying America.  Hillary’s defeat drove Democrats completely out of their minds.  Democrats who grew comfortable in D.C. working for the Duce were suddenly out of jobs.  Lobbyists who were licking their lips anticipating continued graft were suddenly confronted with a President who actually objected to selling America to the highest bidder.  China was their meal ticket, and Trump promised to stop Chinese economic abuse.  Inside the government, the Justice Department, FBI and CIA were more than a bit nervous, given that they had broken myriad laws spying on and trying to stop Trump, before and after the election.  All these elements played a role in the mental disease that was to become known as Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).  The Corleone Family operated on the principle, “nothing personal, it’s just business,” but those afflicted with TDS said, “business be damned, this is personal.”  The Establishment is in the business of profiting from government.  For them, government is the only business that really matters.  When Calvin Coolidge proclaimed that the business of America is business, he was talking about the motivation of the people to produce, buy, sell, and prosper.  Today’s Establishment thinks the business of America is government, and it’s all about the ability of the entitled few to buy and sell America.  How else to explain what happened?  Democrats labeled Trump an existential threat to democracy.  Before the Chinese unleashed the Wuhan virus on the world, here’s what Trump, had accomplished.  Taxes had been reduced.  The incomes of lower income people were up dramatically.  Minorities and women enjoyed unprecedented job opportunities, and unemployment was so low there were more job openings than people to fill them.  China was subjected to tariffs.  We had new trade agreements with Canada and Mexico.  We were energy independent, and were exporting energy.  Companies stopped exporting our jobs.  Our NATO allies began to pay their shares of the cost of their security.  North Korea was in check.  Iran was at bay, and there was peace in the Middle East.  Our troops were coming home, and our military was strong.  Illegal border crossings diminished to the point that they were no longer a news item.  But so pervasive were the effects of Trump Derangement Syndrome, that we threw all these things away simply to rid ourselves of Donald Trump.  The Democrats nominated a corrupt demented imbecile as their candidate, not to fix what Trump had broken, because nothing was broken. (See above).  They nominated Biden as the anti-Trump, and they adopted a Marxian philosophy (Groucho, not Karl) – “Whatever Trump’s for, we’re against it.”  No matter what, and no matter what the cost.  Consider what sense that made.  Trump’s for low taxes?  We want them high.  He’s for energy independence?  Screw that, we’re for $5 gasoline, solar, wind and pond scum.  What, those things don’t work?  Too bad.  We hate Trump.  Then the Wuhan struck, which was a good thing for Democrats.  Biden adviser Anita Dunn certainly thought so, when she said of her boss, “COVID is the best thing that ever happened to him.”  Consider that.  More than 600,000 Americans have died of Covid, about the same number as during the Civil War, and to Democrats, it’s the best thing that ever happened.  Maybe the statistics are not just a coincidence, given that Democrats, now in power, are still fomenting a civil war.  To say the Trump Effect has unleashed madness is an understatement.  The drive to oppose all things Trump led Democrats to condemn and to outlaw useful Covid treatments that could have saved lives.  And politicizing the virus simply to oppose Trump merely exhibited their rampant schizophrenia.  Whatever Trump said had to be wrong.  When Trump stopped foreign flights, that was xenophobic.  They later said he didn’t act fast enough.  Follow the science?  When Fauci said Covid wasn’t a major threat, they believed him.  When Trump repeated Fauci’s opinion, he was lying to America.  When Trump shut down the economy, he was wrong.  When he wanted it opened he was wrong.  When Trump said we’d have a vaccine by the end of 2020, he was lying.  When the vaccine arrived on schedule, it was too late.  If you’re getting the impression that we’ve gone bat crap crazy, you’re right.  These are deranged people who preferred a deadly disease, riots, looting and mayhem to their President.  We now have an administration that got rid of Trump, but refuses to retain positive programs because they came from Trump.  We have exploding debt, the promise of higher taxes, the shutdown of oil pipelines cancelling thousands of good jobs, increasing crime in the streets, racial unrest, high energy prices, increasing inflation, war in the Middle East, China unleashed, North Korea firing missiles, the Russians permitting hackers to hold our vital industries for ransom, a bumbling senile President, a do nothing, know nothing Vice-President, and what is the Democrat priority?  Investigate Trump to see if he misfiled any business reports 25 years ago.  The country is on its way to Hell.  Law breakers are at large.  Law enforcement is in shackles.  We’re more divided than ever before, but it’s all good.  We got rid of Trump.