The last few months have made one thing painfully clear to anyone not drinking the left’s Kool-Aid: Trump Derangement Syndrome is back with a vengeance, and it’s metastasizing in elite media circles and some corners of the mental-health industrial complex. Clinicians and commentators alike are now openly describing the obsessive, almost clinical fixation some people display toward President Trump, a fixation that ruins families, fuels nightly cable tantrums, and distracts the country from real problems.
The corporate press treats every non-newsworthy gripe as breaking moral revelation, amplifying rage into a national pastime while trust in legacy media craters. Americans sense the bias — a record-low confidence in mass media has created fertile ground for the charge that journalists often manufacture outrage rather than report facts, and conservative voices are sick of being smeared as irrational.
Republican lawmakers aren’t just watching; they’re acting. Rep. Warren Davidson introduced the Trump Derangement Syndrome Research Act this year to force a sober, empirical look at the social and psychological drivers behind this epidemic of political obsession, calling for NIH to study how media amplification can turn disagreement into pathology. If Democrats truly cared about science over slogans, they’d welcome a study that exposes how politicized narrative engines coarsen our politics.
Even at the state level, conservatives are pushing back against the absurdity of being gaslit by coastal elites who pretend their anger is virtue. Minnesota Republicans quietly advanced language this spring to codify the concept of TDS into statute and spark serious debate about its effects, a move that drove the usual hysteria from the pundit class but also forced an important conversation about political sanity. If defining the problem gets people to stop treating political disagreement as moral rot, that’s progress.
This isn’t harmless name-calling — the Davidson bill and other conservative advocates point to real-world consequences: obsession with a single political figure has bred violence, threats, and an environment where extremists feel emboldened. The roots of the unrest are complex, but pretending that fevered, nonstop demonization doesn’t produce real danger is irresponsible, and conservatives are right to demand accountability for the media ecosystems that profit from perpetual outrage.
Meanwhile, many local outlets and pundits line up to declare TDS scientifically proven while citing nothing more than their own partisan certainty, a spectacle that would be comic if it weren’t so corrosive. The same institutions that push unverified narratives about presidents then howl about misinformation when they’re exposed, proving once again that the moral outrage is selective and the standards are political.
Patriots who value family, faith, and free speech should be furious that a handful of elite institutions can hijack public discourse and brand dissent as pathology. We should support measured study where appropriate, hold the media to account, and refuse to let the other side win by turning every disagreement into a crusade. The fight for sanity in America’s conversation is a conservative fight for sanity in America itself — and we won’t be silenced.
