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Your notion of “reclaiming the red pill” evokes for me another MAGA retort: Trump Derangement Syndrome.

The first time I heard this term years ago, I assumed it was referring to MAGAs themselves, not liberals. MAGAs have so clearly been spiralling down their fact-free decline for a decade, and dragging everyone who falls within their lazy populist thought-space with them, surely this is what Trump Derangement Syndrome must mean, I thought to myself!

Of course, like so much of what comes out of Trump’s & MAGA’s mouths, it’s projection, accusing others of what he/they have already breeched - with pride, no less - regardless of the galling hypocrisy on display every time.

I’ve tried to suggest to fellow liberals/moderates that WE need to reclaim the term Trump Derangement Syndrome for ourselves, to describe this fog of fact-free irrational projection.

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