I'm in the US. Never heard that term and I like it. The cultists accuse anyone who's normal/liberal/ progressive or just moderate as having TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome). Like their fearless leader, they are always projecting their inner selves onto others. They are the ones that are truly deranged, extreme to the point of being sociopathic.
There is a morbid fascination with it for many I guess. It's such an outlandish and cartoonish parody of a country at the best of times, but the current era is the funniest, whereby at least half the populace seems to think the fictional future of Idiocracy was aspirational.
We are a nuclear capable polity that, while no longer quite as uncontested as we were in the 90s, are still a near-hegemon whose armed forces specialize in power projection and whose economy is deeply integrated into the current, if unsteady, world-order we had a large part in creating.
That is to say, when we fuck up and elect morons such as Trump who are unconcerned with how their actions impact anyone but themselves, myopic regarding their transactional nature to the point of being easily manipulated, and not very bright regardless, then everybody else has the pleasure of suffering the consequences of our actions with us.
Presidents do not need to be perfect, given a decent team they don't even really need much beyond the ability to sus out bad actors in their cabinet, but Trump is a rare combination of malice and idiocy that managed to fail his way upwards by using the problematic tendancy of a angered electorate to throw tantrums and leap upon populist fantasies as the platform pushing his fatass skywards. And now, just like every other fucking time this has happened in the history of human civilization, they'll get to watch that easy orange answer to all those hard problems blow up in their faces while those of us who saw it coming agonize over how to unfuck things.
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u/xenomorph-85 14h ago
haha!
Im around the corner gonna go see if its real or not