Anonymous ID: ab300a Nov. 21, 2018, 6:45 a.m. No.3983694   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3766 >>3870 >>3956 >>4083

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‘Trump Imitation Syndrome’ is afflicting the president’s liberal enemies

 

By Michael Goodwin November 20, 2018 | 9:56pm | Updated

 

The malady known as Trump Derangement Syndrome is marked by a sudden explosion of crazy talk and sometimes actions coming from people formerly regarded as sane. Its sufferers, most, but not all, living on the left wing of the political spectrum, are prone to declare Donald Trump an existential threat to everything, and therefore feel entitled to fight fire with fire.

 

Think of the threats of impeachment before Trump was even inaugurated. Or the fantasies of unhinged celebrities such as Kathy Griffin, Robert De Niro and Madonna that the president or his family suffer violence and maybe death.

 

All this reprehensible conduct was winked at by the national media because Trump is obviously such a bad, bad person. He is so bad that he had managed to drive good people crazy, so who could blame them?

 

Yet now, two years into a Trump presidency, a new malady is emerging, one that reflects a less hostile view of him. It is an implicit recognition that the most unlikely commander-in-chief has not only survived, but is thriving in some ways.

 

I think of this new disease as Trump Imitation Syndrome because its sufferers are behaving in ways that are downright Trumpian.

 

New Yorkers — aren’t we lucky? — are getting a double-dose of it, courtesy of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio. Both are Democrats and both made vicious attacks on Trump a main feature of their successful re-election campaigns. But because imitation is indeed the sincerest form of flattery, we can assume they now see political virtue in Trump’s method.

 

The governor, stung by criticism of the enormous subsidies and power grab he used to lure Amazon to Queens, is turning on much of the media with a ferocity straight out of the president’s playbook.

 

Cuomo, in a statement that his office dubbed an op-ed, although it had not been published anywhere else, took a blowtorch to The Post, The New York Times and CNN. He accused all three of being hypocrites because they, too, had received tax credits or other benefits for job creation and retention in the past.

 

“This transaction is a lightning rod for the political rhetoric on both extremes,” Cuomo wrote, saying, “Extreme conservatives and the socialists both now vehemently oppose ‘incentives’ for Amazon.”

 

He suggested that antagonism toward the deal was driven in part by the fact that Amazon’s Jeff Bezos also owns The Washington Post, and is thus a competitor of the media critics.

 

The governor didn’t use the words “fake news,” but he might have, for he was copying you-know-who in trying to discredit criticism as being driven by hidden agendas and personal ambitions.

 

To underscore the point, Cuomo issued a second blistering attack after the Times hit him in another editorial.

 

The comparison will be complete if he can find a version of Jim Acosta to slap around.

 

Sauce: https://nypost.com/2018/11/20/trump-imitation-syndrome-is-afflicting-the-presidents-liberal-enemies/

Anonymous ID: ab300a Nov. 21, 2018, 7:31 a.m. No.3984043   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Mad Politics: Keeping Your Sanity in a World Gone Crazy

 

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, America has been insane for decades. We've elected establishment politicians on both sides of the aisle; we've hoped for change; and we've been disappointed.

 

But with the election of Donald Trump, America tried something new. So we have to ask ourselves: what if Trump isn't the crazy man that the media pretends he is? What if he's actually the cure for a country who's been going mad for years?

 

In Mad Politics, Fox News commentator, radio host, and psychological analyst Dr. Gina Loudon diagnoses the problem with America's status quo politics. Loudon has unique insight into both the Trump campaign and the larger political landscape as a member of the president's 2020 media advisory board, a former surrogate for his campaign, the wife of a former Senator from Missouri, the co-host of a national Television show, a seasoned psychological analyst on FOX News, CNN and others, and a twice pedigreed Master and Ph.D.

 

With authority and wit, Mad Politics exposes cultural patterns that have led to today's political narcissism. She scans the psychological literature and illuminates a formula to answer the question: How can we restore a sound mind to the body politic? The answer, Loudon concludes, may be in joining Trump in a complete rejection of political correctness.

 

Sauce: https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Politics-Keeping-Sanity-World/dp/1621578038