Trump Derangement Syndrome can make people do strange and frightening things. It can goad a state's attorney into trying to throw someone in jail for making a perfectly legal “hush money” payment to an alleged paramour. It can lead law enforcement to charge individual citizens with violations of Sarbanes-Oxley (which deals with the financial reporting obligations of public companies.)
It can cause the U.S. Justice Department officials to spread disinformation, to the public and to the legislators who oversee them, that Joe Biden's son's real laptop is actually part of a Russian plot. It also induces the media to fall blindly and eagerly into believing such government-sponsored hoaxes.
Trump Derangement Syndrome can provide an excuse for politicians, commentators and media voices alike to ignore for months the obviously diminished mental capacity of the most powerful man in the world. It can even cause them to mercilessly attack as charlatans those who try to raise a red flag to indicate the obvious.
And that is just the impact of Trump Derangement Syndrome on Democrats, liberals, progressives and all of those in the media who cling breathlessly to the fiction that they are impartial journalists.
Trump Derangement Syndrome can also affect Republicans, conservatives and populists. Trump really could shoot........