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Trump Derangement Syndrome

Why such antipathy to The Donald?

26 March 2016

9:00 AM

26 March 2016

9:00 AM

Have you heard of Bush Derangement Syndrome? Though only first diagnosed in 2003 by Dr Charles Krauthammer, an American psychiatrist and conservative pundit, the first cases began to develop in the late 1990s; within two years, the United States was in the grip of a BDS pandemic: ‘the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency – nay – the very existence of George W.

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