It is difficult to escape the conclusion that many Americans hate President Donald Trump so much that they’d rather see the butcher Ayatollah Khamenei alive and the Iranian people under his boot than see Trump triumph. The prospect of a decisive victory over an evil regime, a victory led by Trump, seems to alarm them more than a theocracy with an arsenal of long-range ballistic missiles and a renewed race for nuclear weapons.

This level of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” is toxic — to the individual carrying that burden in their head and on their heart, and to their families and friends.