Blind hatred makes people irrational. When you suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, you are likely to take the opposite view to the President on pretty much every issue, because surely he’s never right. But this automatic contrariness can lead to some absurdities like this meme circulating in various similar forms on social media at the moment:
Yes, America is only 243 years old, but by the same token Italy is only 138.
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