A therapist's warning: Trump didn't break America — permanent outrage did

[Ptarmigan]

A therapist's warning: Trump didn't break America — permanent outrage did
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/therapists-warning-trump-didnt-break-america-permanent-outrage-did

After my Wall Street Journal opinion piece, "Is ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ Real?" was published, the response was immediate and intense. Some readers thanked me. Many were furious. I was accused of excusing Donald Trump, minimizing harm and betraying my profession. Some messages were hostile. A few crossed into threats.

What struck me wasn’t the disagreement itself, but how quickly disagreement turned into fury. Simply questioning the idea was enough to set people off. That reaction stayed with me, because it reflected something I had already been seeing in my clinical work.

Over the past decade, one psychological pattern has quietly become dominant in American life. It cuts across education, geography and socioeconomic status. I would even go so far as to call it the defining pathology of our political era: a state of chronic political anxiety in which outrage becomes habitual and threat becomes the default lens.

These leftists are completely broken and screwed up way before President Donald Trump. 

[Texacon]

It is absolutely impossible to have reasonable discourse with the left, at this point.  Their reasoning skills have left the building.

KC

[SVPete]

Permanent hatred, like 25 years of DU (not that they are alone).

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

They couldn't run against Bush in a policy debate, so they had to demonize him.

Each successive candidate had to be portrayed as worse than the one before.

They can't de-escalate their rhetoric because that would be admitting error.

There is no direction left except to spin out of control.