Washington - Critics of President Trump are regularly accused of exaggerating his corruption, his predilection toward autocratic rule, and his affection for dictators.
They are told that their apprehension about the threat he poses to our constitutional democracy is not a form of vigilance but a disease, "Trump Derangement Syndrome. “All they can do is attack the president all day long on the scandal of the day,” said Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who became an aficionado of the term.
This is the same Cruz who, in 2016, called Trump a "pathological liar," "utterly amoral," "a narcissist at a level I don't think this country's ever seen" and "a serial philanderer.