How Trump Derangement Sydrome Is Making Partisan Democrats Sick With Anxiety

Hyperpartisanship and mental health

Grok AI

Last Monday, Axios reported that nine House Democrats worry their progressive base voter is increasingly inclined to just burn everything down. The high-engagement progressive soul is unable to focus on winning back Congress in 2026, on realistic goals, on constitutional means. The people who put signs in their yards to announce their political beliefs are in full meltdown mode.

Their “sense of fear and despair and anger … puts us in a different position where ... we can't keep following norms of decorum” anymore, said one Democrat. “Our own base is telling us that what we're doing is not good enough ... [that] there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public,” said another anonymous Dem (emphasis added).

These calls for “violence ... to fight to protect our democracy” from itself are peppered with demands that the lawmakers risk their own lives and safety and freedom to perform acts of angry opposition to Donald Trump. “Many lawmakers said these voters tend to be white, well-educated and live in upscale suburban or urban neighborhoods,” Andrew Solender reports, to no one’s surprise. The high-engagement, high-education, center-left voter is not okay.