The return of Donald Trump to the White House seems to be triggering yet another existential crisis for Democrats, adding to their ever-growing list of existential crises. You’d think they have enough to worry about with climate change, bird flu and Russia hanging over their heads without another winter surge of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).

The worst part? There is no vaccine, but don’t worry: Fauci is working hard on a cure!

In the meantime, their solution isn’t to organize, strategize or even debate policy, but to book a therapy session, with Axios reporting that therapists are seeing an “uptick” in Democrat voters who are struggling to handle Trump’s policies, with some feeling “burnout, guilt and despair at losing an old way of life.”

Now, I will never downplay the importance of real therapy. There’s a pattern — often found on the right — that is stuck in the 1950s when it comes to mental health, pushing the absurd belief that the cure to depression is snapping out of it, that there is no difference between crippling anxiety and feeling nervous, or that diagnoses like ADHD are inventions of the medical industry so they can sell pills.

However, two things can be true at once: Mental health issues are real, and some perceived mental health issues are not.

And Trump Derangement Syndrome is not a real mental disorder that requires therapy, so forgive me if I don’t feel all that sympathetic.

First off, apparently even the prospect of Trump doing what he was elected to do — scaling back government overreach, securing the border and dismantling DEI bureaucracy — has left many leftists in emotional disarray. And this is the same group that spent years mocking conservatives for complaining about the Biden administration’s disastrous policies!

We were called “snowflakes” when we pointed out the skyrocketing inflation, open border chaos and global instability under Biden … but at least we didn’t book an appointment to see our shrink.

Because the issue here isn’t just that Democrat voters are reacting this way; it’s that they believe this is a reasonable way to react. They’ve built their entire identity around political outcomes, treating elections not as contests of ideas but as cosmic battles between good and evil. When Trump wins, their world crumbles. When Biden won, they saw it as a divine victory.

This isn’t politics. This is a cult.

Republicans had every reason to feel “burnout, guilt and despair” as the Biden administration turned the country into a weaker, poorer and more unstable place. But we didn’t collapse into a puddle of emotions because of it. Why? Because for (most) conservatives, politics isn’t our religion. It matters — sure — but it’s not our identity.

Meanwhile, too many Democrats have built their self-worth around political outcomes. They wake up every day obsessed with Washington, convinced that a Trump presidency means fascism, that a second term will usher in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and that democracy will end forever (again).

Elections matter, but they are not everything. And if the idea of Donald Trump in the White House sends you running to a therapist’s couch, then perhaps it’s time to reevaluate what’s really important in your life. If your world is so small, so dependent on political victories, that losing one sends you into an emotional tailspin, then the problem isn’t Trump, Biden or Kamala Harris.

Maybe the problem is you?

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