Anyone who doubts the existence of TDS needs to look at this recent poll:
A recent survey released by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) found that only 29 percent of Republicans say that American culture and way of life have changed for the better since the 1950s.
The number is a leap down from 2020 when 46 percent of Republicans said American culture and way of life had changed for the better since the 1950s, but is only two points off from what Republicans said in 2016, before Donald Trump was elected President.
(It would be interesting to know how many black Republicans feel this way.)
You might argue that this is not surprising, that the same is true (in the opposite direction) of Democrats. But the poll results suggest otherwise:
Sixty three percent of Democrats who participated in the survey think American culture and way of life has changed for the better, which is about the same as it was in 2020.
The Trump cult is so obsessed with their leader that they literally believe that the entire nature of the United States of America changes on a dime the moment he enters office and then again the moment he leaves. When they think of America they don’t visualize a country, they visualize a man. It’s a personality cult.
So please, do not tell me that there is no such thing as Trump Derangement Syndrome.