By Selwyn Duke

Putting “Why do people hate Trump so much?” into a search engine yields a trove of results relating to Americans pondering, proposing, and picking brains (and prevaricating?) regarding the matter. For as much as the president is admired and heroicized by supporters, his staunchest opponents’ feelings run just as deep: They hate him with the passion of a thousand burning suns.

It could be unprecedented in American history. Ronald Reagan and G.W. Bush were hated, with the former dubbed “Ronald Ray-gun” and the latter caricatured as a monkey. But nothing quite compares to what’s been informally labeled a psychological problem: Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).

The site “Thought Catalog” made an attempt last year to define TDS’s etiology, reviewing a multitude of online comments and then listing “The 20 Top Reasons” people hate Trump. But these range from the silly and childish — “He’s a former reality-TV star” and “He’s rude and mean” — to the banal: “He is pro-gun” (like most every Republican). So the discerning could suspect that those thus opining may present these reasons, but that their real reasons remain hidden, perhaps even from themselves.

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