TDS Runs the Democrat Party

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) recently said, in response to the question of “who do you think leads the Democratic Party today?”:

I think the TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) that — I think that’s the leader right now. You know, right now our party, is, is governed by the TDS, and now it’s made it virtually impossible, without being punished, as a Democrat, to agree something’s good, or ‘I agree with the other side,’ and I would define that by [Operation] Epic Fury.

Sen. Fetterman gets it.

But just to guard against confirmation bias, I looked to other prominent Democrats to see what they thought. Which brought me to the “Ragin' Cajun,” James Carville, who is exceedingly “ragin” these days:

You’re right, I got Trump Derangement Syndrome. I hate the motherf**ker. And you know what? I don’t wanna get rid of it. I don’t wanna get better. I wanna get worse. I wanna hate him more. I pray to God in heaven… Pray for me, Lord. I’m your vessel on this earth. Pray for the people that listen to this. We want more. We wanna hate the son of a b**ch so much that we can’t see straight!

Carville also spoke for many other Democrat TDS sufferers to vow unrelenting jihad against the sitting president:

So we’ve prayed together tonight. We will pray together more. But the one thing we’re not gonna do, we’re not gonna f**king back off. Not any time ever. We are not gonna back off. And you fat s**t, Trump, you understand that. You understand how many f**king people in this country agree with me and are praying to have the strength to even hate you more than they hate you now. And I know you think you can’t, but I’m telling you, if you work hard enough at it, you can hate him even more.

Even non-political Democrats have acknowledged and bowed to the rampant TDS in their party. Actor Jerry O’Connell, the star of the hit movie Stand By Me, admitted his own family threw a violent fit after he made offhanded critical remarks about then-Vice President Kamala Harris losing to Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.

I said something along the lines of ‘there was no planning. This is what they get. There should have been a primary. I said something along those lines, you know, like I was just spit-balling ideas. My wife and daughters, without saying anything, became physical with me. They were filled with rage. So if I am being careful with you in how I say things, yes, I live in California. I live with not one, not two, but three people who, if I made any kind of joke, they’d become very angry with me.

And O’Connell was speaking merely as a Democrat who was critical of the Democrats because he wanted them to win.

Once again, none of this is normal behavior for a political party. It is both dangerous and crazy. And it will certainly not lead to good results.

Since President Trump began his second term in office, the Democrats have raged against virtually all his actions, whatever the circumstances. So far, the Democrats are on record as opposing:

The Trump administration’s declaration of Operation Epic Fury, the U.S.-Israeli strike on the Islamic regime in Iran. Despite the fact that the Iranian regime has been at war with the U.S. since 1979, periodically screaming “Death to America,” taking American hostages, murdering more than a thousand Americans, and attempting to assassinate American leadership. Despite the fact that the Iranian regime was seeking nuclear weapons and the intercontinental ballistic weapons to deliver them to the continental U.S. Despite all this, the Democrats and the MSM – but I repeat myself – sometimes seem to both support the brutal Iranian regime and desire that the U.S. forces suffer casualties;
The Trump administration’s use of ICE to follow longstanding federal laws and remove illegal aliens. This includes attempts by the Trump administration to deport vicious non-citizen criminal aliens who are terrorist supporters or criminal gangbangers who (allegedly) beat women and operate human smuggling rings. This has led the Democrats to demand the defunding of ICE, which is as ridiculously impossible – some government agency is needed to control illegal aliens and enforce the law– as were earlier Democrat calls to defund local police forces. It has also led their Antifa-led groups to resort to violence against ICE;
The Trump administration’s investigation of massive fraud, to the tune of possibly $9 billion in taxpayer money, by Somalian criminals who operated fake day care centers and, in some cases, allegedly funded terrorists;
The Trump administration’s crackdown on leftist, antisemitic, Antifa rioters on college campuses, and its efforts to get rid of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs in colleges and in government offices that receive federal funding while discriminating against various disfavored sexual/racial/ethnic/religious groupings, including males, Caucasians, Asians, and Jews.

The worst part of the wave of TDS is that many particularly high-strung leftists/Democrats have been incited into violence during the past decade. Twice, if not three times, there have been attempts on President Trump's life. A Bernie Bro shot up a GOP congressional baseball practice in 2017. And there has been repeated violence by leftist agitators against federal immigration enforcement agents.

None of this will change any time soon. The Democrat elites continue to double down, stuck in that doom loop I mentioned previously, and their fellow partisans echo their demands and anger. Now, in addition to the violence they continue to embrace, the elites threaten more political lawfare against the Trump administration and its supporters. And those Democrats who argue against the TDS, like Sen. Fetterman, find themselves increasingly unpopular among the party membership.

Because of their raging TDS, the Democrats’ “ideology” has simply become “everything Trump is for, I am against.”

Which is NOT how to "keep a republic." Not at all.

Editor's Note: President Trump is leading America into the "Golden Age" as Democrats try desperately to stop it.

Please help us continue to report on President Trump's successes. Join RedState VIP and use promo code FIGHT to get 60% off your membership.