Mark Halperin

It's all colored by this deep, deep concern.

On the left, that Donald Trump is a menace, which for many of them is discombobulating to say the least.

And then on the right, a belief that all of the dynamics, all the factors that got Donald Trump elected the first time and then reelected the second time, that all those things are still out there, that there's still too much woke, that there's still too much government control, still too much government regulation.

I look at the things I said in 2016 and 2024, and I think I was so right, I was so aware of the division, and yet almost nothing in our society is doing anything to change it.

I try on two-way, I try here, I try to do my best to be an explainer, okay?

I can't afford doing what I do to have Trump derangement syndrome,

or to have the reality of Donald Trump as president give me a mental health problem.

I can't, that'd be irresponsible to do either of those.

But I also must be vigilant, must be vigilant in explaining

to people who are MAGA, just how upset people are.

They see that, and I see this every day on Twitter in particular.

They see what they call Trump derangement syndrome, what they see, the emotion of governors and members of Congress or just folks on X.

They see their anger at the president, their upset, and they mock it.

They mock it.

They look at it as weakness, and they delight in it.

You know, the phrase, own the libs.

They delight in that.

What they don't try to do, and what I'm asking all of you to do if you support the president and you're listening to this show, is try to have some understanding for why they're so upset.

Don't just mock it.

Maybe stop mocking it.