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Julie Hartman, a 24-year-old woman with whom I do a weekly podcast (« Dennis & Julie »), described the anti-Israel world perfectly: A vast number of people suffer from Israel Derangement Syndrome.
The description is, of course, based on the widely cited « Trump Derangement Syndrome », which supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party deride as nonsense. Though I voted for former President Donald Trump and thought he was a very good, at times excellent, president, I never used that term during the four years of the Trump presidency. I did not regard opposition to Trump as necessarily an expression of psychological pathology.
Eventually, however, I changed my mind. I came to believe that much Trump hatred was rooted in psychology, not moral reasoning. This was particularly so regarding conservatives who became « Never Trumpers. » Given that the Left had taken over the once largely liberal Democratic Party, and given that the Left is the greatest threat to freedom and the entire American experiment since the Civil War, the only explanation for why a conservative would vote for a leftist rather than for Trump had to be a psychological one.
Whether or not one subscribes to the existence of a Trump Derangement Syndrome, « derangement syndrome » perfectly explains support for Hamas and the Palestinians (at this time, the two are largely the same, just as « Nazis » and « Germans » were largely the same, and therefore used interchangeably, during World War II).
