I am not speaking metaphorically. I am not using hyperbole. And I am not projecting my political prejudices onto people with whom I disagree. 

It's just clear as day that a substantial fraction of Democrats are out of their minds. Quite literally, they have lost touch with reality. 

We often talk about Trump Derangement Syndrome, and it is a very real thing. But what I am talking about is something deeper and even more troubling, although the madness is expressed most vividly when lefties talk about Trump. We are facing a genuine mental health crisis. 

56% of young, liberal white women have been diagnosed with a mental disorder, based on a survey by Pew Research.

It often manifests itself in bizarre ways:

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— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 20, 2024

Some Democrats--not all, of course, or even the majority of people who will fill in their ballots with ill-conceived votes for Democrats--have genuinely lost their minds. It's not exclusively Democrats, of course, but the home of mental illness-driven politics is in that party. 

Over 50% of young Liberal Women have been diagnosed with a mental health condition. pic.twitter.com/SeRiPx5Zfj

— The Rabbit Hole (@TheRabbitHole84) August 25, 2024

I am not trying to insult Democrats or the mentally ill. Mental illness runs in my family--both major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder. So, don't think I am trying to discount the mentally ill. Properly treated, mental illness is not a disabling disorder. Not properly treated it is a threat to self and others. 

Duane wrote something similar yesterday, and I am going to steal a video he used because I think the analysis is spot on: 

Mark Halperin is right, except the crisis is already here. Surely it will get worse if and when Trump wins, but since 2020, we have moved on from simple Trump hatred to vast swathes of the population being completely disconnected from reality. 

A 2020 Pew Research study revealed that 40% of liberal, white women ages 30-49 have a mental health issue.

If you don’t believe that, here’s Nebraska State Senator Michaela Cavenaugh to prove it.

H/T: @ImMeme0pic.twitter.com/3rmXu9WLSj

— Jason Jones (@jonesville) May 20, 2023

Forgive me for using The View and Morning Joe in the next clips, but despite many people's dismissal of these insane hosts as irrelevant, they actually speak to millions of people who share their views. The harridans of The View spew their bile to the largest daytime audience in America, and MSNBC is to its viewers as slimy TV evangelists are to their acolytes. I have a relative who is glued to MSNBC and buys every word of it. 

Despite Trump doing debates on networks with 100% negative coverage of him (ABC & CBS), The View claims Trump refuses to go to hostile outlets.
Whoopi claims Harris is "forced" to do an interview with Fox News because she's a woman. pic.twitter.com/Tz0TCoJvvv

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 15, 2024

These women and their viewers actually do believe that Donald Trump is going to send the Air Force after them, and for all I can tell, Morning Joe (soon to be Mourning Joe, God willing), believes Trump is getting ready to round up and execute people. They see a world that simply does not exist and that is a form of mental illness. 

Behar claims the media are on Trump's side and are trying to depress Democratic turn out by reporting on the polls: "They're doing that on purpose. It's so disheartening for Democrats and people leaning towards Kamala to say what's the point? Don't buy into that!" pic.twitter.com/b0ahRVUrCq

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 16, 2024

Insane @JoyVBehar claims Trump will have ‘the Air Forces’ bomb @TheView studio if he gets elected again https://t.co/cL7AAN3ey1

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 16, 2024

MORNING JOE: "In a 2nd term, Trump will imprison, he will execute whoever he is allowed to imprison, execute, drive from the country. Just look at his past. It’s not really hard to read" pic.twitter.com/3bs2YnC82K

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) November 21, 2023

The disconnection from reality goes far beyond Trump, though. He is the focus of so much of their rage, but think about the behavior of liberals during the COVID crisis. The obsession with masks, the hounding of dissenters, the adulation of Fauci. It was bizarre, and emotionally disregulated. 

I live in a state where the governor announced a proposal to take children from unvaccinated parents & turn them over to the state. I watched him say this. They discussed where to house all the kids. Sort of a state-run orphanage-like institutional setting. It is HORRIFYING.

— Bev Harris (@BevHarrisWrites) September 24, 2024

And then there is the celebration of alphabet ideology. By definition, dysphoria is a mental illness, but it is embraced by the left and celebrated as something wonderful. Men pretending to be babies or dogs are elevated to almost angelic status, and children's bodies and minds are being sacrificed to the alphabet gods. 

9. White House interns CRINGE Tik Tok moment pic.twitter.com/1M3gekP0kB

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 31, 2023

Drag queens are now icons, pornography is a must-read for children, and sterilizing and mutilating children as young as 8 is a line drawn in the sand: support this, or you are a bigoted hater!

"Does a chicken cry?" Time and again we are confronted by people who cannot distinguish wishes and feelings from reality. That is almost the definition of psychosis--disconnection from reality. Many liberals actually doubt that there is such a thing. Many academics outright assert that reality is defined by how one thinks or feels, with no connection to what you and I think of as the real world. 

"You're seeking what we call in my profession an 'essentialist' answer," which is just another way of saying that there is nothing essential--reality is what we make it. 

There is no reality. It's all feels, or in the case of Kamala Harris supporters, "vibes."

Would you affirm your kid identifying as a dog? pic.twitter.com/wS590ZHJzx

— TaraBull (@TaraBull808) June 26, 2024

There are now millions of people who are delusional in some way or another, and the left celebrates this as a form of liberation. 

People are being liberated in a sense: they are no longer tethered to the real world, but until five minutes ago we treated such people with therapy and sometimes medication. Now we groom them into political warriors. 

You have probably noticed that not just transgender people--people who believe that they are something that they manifestly are not--are being elevated to a special status. Queer people in particular are, and Queer is defined as being anything not normal. The goal is to break completely with reality. 

New words create new realities. New pronouns symbolize this perfectly. God knows how many pronouns there are, because the whole point is to divide reality into so many slices that each person lives in their own world. 

Trump Derangement Syndrome is really just the tip of the iceberg. It is one of the most concrete examples, as is the still powerful COVID hysteria. 

I understand why normal Democrats don't like Donald Trump--they have their reasons, based on their values, their general sense of how things work, and often their disgust with his character. I am not speaking of these people. 

But about half of Democrats have gone insane. They identify with literal terrorists, think dressing up in furry costumes should be celebrated, imagine that rituals of men peeing on each other should occur in public, and that children should learn how to be drag queens. 

They hate the world they live in, and retreat to a bizarre fantasy world in which they are the star and everybody else is a bit player. 

It isn’t even misgendering. What would be misgendering is calling him ma’am. Is there a word that describes a person’s refusal to participate in the delusions of others? If not, we certainly need one. pic.twitter.com/B73j5aAeaN

— 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐠 (@HarmfulOpinion) June 3, 2024

This is no different than the mental patients who think they are Napoleon--I have no idea of those stories are apocryphal or not, but we are seeing this in the real world. 

WE live in a world where it is important to discover whether chickens can cry to determine their sex, and in which people believe they can lay eggs and be treated as if they are sane. 

If Trump wins, we are in for a very wild ride.