So there’s a scene in one of the old “Star Trek” movies in which James Kirk is trying to persuade the bad guy to beam Spock onto his ship. When the bad guy refuses, Kirk asks why. “Because you wish it!” he replies.

Message: Opposing something reasonable simply to show opposition is what bad guys do.

I am reminded of this on an almost daily basis as I see the Democrats’ boundless, rabid energy for fighting the president. If instead of the last 10 years of mindless protesting, they had directed that energy into positive efforts, there wouldn’t be a single illiterate child in any of our schools or a piece of trash on the ground. Of course, positive outcomes aren’t what they want because they all seem to have Trump Derangement Syndrome.

TDS is a serious disease that afflicts the majority of people who’ve voted the wrong way since 2016. Its hallmarks are hatred of Donald Trump and his supporters, allergic reaction to facts and logic, and affinity for America’s enemies.

We all see evidence of it every day. Some choice examples include:

— Refusal to clap for a 13-year-old who survived cancer because Trump introduced him.

— Doubling-down on the insanity of trans men in women’s sports after Trump’s hugely popular executive order on the subject. Transgenderism is the first “civil rights” movement that involves sending female athletes to the hospital. #empoweringwomen

— Supporting crime, simply because Trump is trying to stem the crime wave in disastrously run blue cities. This one’s particularly dangerous given that 89 percent of Americans say crime in these cities is a problem.

Now, I’m no expert, but if you are trying to win over the majority of voters, it seems you should go along with what they say.

Wikipedia goes out of its way to try to undermine TDS as a legitimate criticism, writing “The term has mainly been used by Trump supporters to discredit criticism of him, as a way of reframing the discussion by suggesting that his opponents are incapable of accurately perceiving the world, thus making TDS a logical fallacy.”

However, those critics are the same people who label everyone they disagree with a Nazi … while simultaneously calling for the destruction of Israel. To call that “cognitive dissonance” is to be generous with the term.

Yes, TDS is real because social media rewires the human brain, and the victims of TDS have spent the last 10 years force-feeding themselves nonstop propaganda. While we chuckle at our enemies when we diagnose their TDS, the reality is no laughing matter. Given how much Democrats increasingly support street-level political violence, TDS has metastasized in these rewired brains to create an army of “progressive” suicide bombers.

Note that TDS didn’t start with Trump — the term is an adaptation of Charles Krauthammer’s “Bush derangement syndrome.” Of course, what spurred BDS was reasonable anger over the Iraq War, making it totally out of place for Trump, the first president since Jimmy Carter not to send U.S. troops into any new conflict.

Whatever the name, the syndrome probably stems from the childish way liberals love to view themselves as adolescents fighting the older generation. It’s puerile, pathological contrarianism. So much of the “Pink Lady” opposition was middle-age women desperately trying to feel young … of course, now it’s old liberal women pretending to be middle-age, so I leave it to you which is more embarrassing.

It’s baffling that war protesters are so hellbent on protesting a guy who didn’t start any wars. These are the same people who insist Islam is a “religion of peace” every time a Muslim terrorist murders a bunch of people, as we saw (yet) again over the weekend in Sydney.

There is no cure for TDS. Logic, maturity and reason must be sought out – there’s no way to administer them like an enema. We have to enforce our borders, we have to keep producing oil, we have to empower cops to fight criminals, and we should clap for 13-year-old cancer survivors. Opposing something reasonable simply to show opposition is what bad guys do.

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ABOUT THE WRITER

Jared Whitley has worked in the Senate, the Bush White House and the military industry. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.

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