Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
9th February 2026
Plato Understood Why Masking Would Turn ICE Agents Into Devils (Paul Rosenzweig/The UnPopulist)
The Aftermath of Feeding America’s Credibility Into the Woodchipper (Jeremy Konyndyk/New York Times) Too late—that happened under Obama. Trump is trying to glue the pieces back together, with mixed results.
Crypto revolt exposes fragility of Trump’s coalition (Zachary Basu/Axios)
A Raid in a Small Town Brings Trump’s Deportations to Deep-Red Idaho (New York Times) Illegal immigrants can be anywhere. The focus is not kjust on Blue staes.
The blowback to Trump’s racist video reveals his weakness (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice) Geez, that was so fifteen minutes ago….
New York GOP’s midterm problem: No money, no bench — and Trump (Emily Ngo/Politico)
1 big thing: Trump’s crypto revolt (Axios)
Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump (Katherine Mangu-Ward/New York Times) And nobody listened BECAUSE NOBODY LISTENS TO LIBERTARIANS nor do the have any reason to. Libertarians, like Marxists, live in their own little world that doesn’t resemble the real world in any significant respect.
Democrats Flip-Flop On ICE Agents And Body Cameras Be careful what you wish for….
Irish man detained by ICE for 5 months I guess it would be disingenuous to point out that foreigners don’t have the same rights that American citizens do. The guy has been in America for 20 years; if he’s not a citizen by now, that’s a deliberate choice. I suspect that if he told them “Hey, I want to go back to Ireland”, they’d hand him a plane ticket and wish him good luck.
Ice Kid Prisons More tendentious twists from the Usual Suspects.
Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show: Less Political Than Expected But More Meaningful | Zing Tsjeng (Times News UK) The point is that it ought not to be political at all. It’s a sports event; intruding politics into it is just another Woke virtue-signal.
They’ve Always Known He is A Racist… (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.
Why Trump Voters Are Torn Over Minneapolis (New York Times) More proglodyte wishful thinking. Trump voters aren’t torn over Minneapolis; they just wish that the AWFULs in the city would quit trying to impede law enforcement.
How Trump is rigging immigration courts against Somali migrants (Judd Legum/Popular Information)
Trump, Extreme Wealth Concentration, and Our Societal Crisis (John Ripton/Common Dreams) The Left really hates the fact that people who actually produce value are not having their earnings confiscated (as much) and given to the (Democtat dependent) underclass.
NY Times Columnist Says Vance’s Mother Should Have Sold Him To Feed Her Addiction Democrats have never gotten over ®epublicans freeing their slaves.
NPR TV Critic Snipes at Trump’s Super Bowl Ads, Plus One Based on Helping ‘White People’ If Trump doesn’t help white people, who will?
Trump has a plan to steal the midterms. It will probably fail. (Eric Levitz/Vox) Proglodyte Projection: The Left always accuses their hate-objects of doing they they are planning to do.