Imagine hating Donald Trump so much that you root against your own country.  We no longer need to imagine; we see evidence every single day among many Democrats and their comrades in the anti-Trump media.

The latest examples were on full display when the president agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran. Just minutes after the deal was announced, MS NOW’s Symone Sanders, without batting a massive eyelash, declared this: ‘Donald Trump just caved, backing down from his fake deadline.’ Sanders is a former aide to Bernie Sanders, so she fits right in with the network’s stable of crazies. Over on CNN, Erin Burnett accused the president of chickening out.  And even before the ceasefire, CBS’s Margaret Brennan was exceedingly tough on guests from the administration, while treating Iran’s foreign minister with kid gloves. The airwaves are overflowing with hosts and pundits who seem to revel in what they consider bad news for the president. And, like turning water into wine, they can miraculously transform anything into bad news. They blame Trump when oil prices rise, and the stock market falls; they blame Trump when the inverse occurs.

Turning to politics, here’s a riddle: What is the shortest length of time known to mankind?  It’s the time that elapsed between the ceasefire and the cavalcade of Democrats complaining on friendly media outlets. You know them by now – Murphy, Auchincloss, Van Hollen, Tlaib, et al.  Most warned (hoped??) that Iran would win the war, then bellyached because the ceasefire is a ‘bad deal.’  Does anyone doubt that many Democrats wake up every morning hoping to read bad news about the USA war effort?   And does anyone doubt that, while they mouthed the right words after the miraculous Easter rescue of a downed airman, they were not pleased  with that American military success?

These are very serious accusations, and nothing like this has happened before, at least when a war is barely a month old.  Some radicals actively rooted for a US defeat in Vietnam, but that came after years of fighting.  Jane Fonda’s traitorous visit to North Vietnam, where she proudly posed with an anti-aircraft gun, was in 1972, seven years after LBJ’s escalation.  Some prominent Democratic Senators, most notably Robert F. Kennedy and George McGovern, opposed that war, but no one in Congress was actively cheering on our enemies.

To see how this is all playing out in Democratic politics, just look north to Massachusetts. Senator Ed Markey, who has been in DC since the Carter era, will soon turn 80 and is desperately trying to cling to his seat.  ‘Donald Trump has surrendered, not the Iranians,’ he pronounced. The elderly senator is being challenged from the left by perpetually scowling Congressman Seth Moulton, who calls the president ‘incredibly senile’ and ‘clearly off his rocker.’  Both men obviously feel that the path to victory is paved with vitriol against the president, not against the terrorists running Iran. 

This chapter was summed up nicely by long-time journalist John Fund, who put it this way:  ‘This is the first war that I have ever experienced, or frankly have read about, in which the American news media is quietly and behind-the-scenes wishing for the war to go badly, largely because of antipathy towards President Trump.’  That's hard to dispute. Psychologists are actively studying the malady we all know as ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome,’ which causes otherwise sane people to act bizarrely. There can be no better example than this current moment in time, when even love of country is eclipsed by an all-consuming loathing of one man in the White House.  'Shameful' doesn't even begin to describe it.