What I found this week is, for the purpose of this column, almost magical. A woman named Caroline Fredrickson brain-barfed up an almost 1200-word guest essay for the Opinion section of The New York Times titled, “What Worries Me Most About a Trump Presidency.” I kid you not, it’s one of the most dishonest things I’ve read this year.
Fredrickson comes out of the gate proving her pathological liar bona fides.
There are almost daily headlines now describing what Donald Trump would do if elected: the mass deportations, the pardons handed out to his friends and golf buddies, the Justice Department settling scores and waging personal vendettas. The former president has even promised violence if the election goes against him, warning that it could be a “blood bath.”
Of all the breathless mainstream media lies about Trump, none has been debunked as thoroughly and quickly as the “bloodbath” nonsense. Such is the state of anti-Trump fever in prominent leftist news organizations. We don’t call it derangement because we’re addicted to hyperbole on the Right; we call it derangement because these people are truly deranged.
Pathology. Disconnect. Projection. This Op-Ed is a Psych 101 textbook of symptoms. The Times should pay her with a straitjacket and some mood stabilizers. OK, that should be the currency for remunerating all of its Opinion columnists.
These ongoing freak-outs about what Trump will do are based on not only the inherent mental instability of leftists, but on their ability to run with their version of Trump’s time in office rather than what actually transpired. It wasn’t a perfect presidency, but it was a good one.