When do we call them crazy?
All we see is a Democrat party screaming wolf every day, and less people paying attention to it.
Silvio Canto, Jr. | April 22, 2026
As I recall, President Trump referred to the Democrats as crazy at the latest State of the Union speech. I thought that it was hilarious, and we all had a good laugh. Maybe the president had a point, and a visit to a psychiatrist may be next. Let’s hear from Jonathan Alpert, a psychotherapist in New York City and Washington, D.C.:
Since 2016, Democrats have increasingly asked voters to rally not around a compelling vision of America’s future, but around fear of what happens if Donald Trump returns. Every election is cast as the final firewall before catastrophe. Democracy is on the ballot. Institutions are under siege. The country cannot survive another Trump term. Some of those warnings may be sincerely felt, and some may even be justified. But when politics becomes an endless sequence of alarms, something deeper begins to erode: a political party can forget how to talk about anything beyond the emergency itself.
In my work as a psychotherapist, I often see what happens when people organize their lives around preventing old pain from recurring. Their thinking narrows into vigilance, avoidance, and threat management. Instead of moving toward the life they want, they become consumed with making sure the worst thing never happens again. It’s a pattern I explore more broadly in my forthcoming book, Therapy Nation, and it offers a useful lens for understanding what has happened to Democratic politics.
For a decade now, the Democratic Party’s most emotionally coherent message has often been less about what kind of country it wants to build than what catastrophe must be prevented.
What catastrophe must be prevented is about right. Just listen to what they say and how consumed they are with issuing one warning after another. We recently posted about Governor Walz and Senator Murphy going to Barcelona, Spain, to tell the world that the U.S. was in crisis. Governor Walz called President Trump a “creep” and Senator Murphy warned that it was the biggest crisis since the Civil War.
The problem with making everything about Trump is that most Americans aren’t sitting around talking about Trump all the time. They’ve lived under his presidency for two terms, and no elections were cancelled, no troops were sent out to shoot Americans, and the Orange Man respected the Supreme Court opinion on treaties.
So where is the danger to our democracy? There isn’t one. All we see is a Democrat party screaming wolf every day, and less people paying attention to it.
So maybe they are crazy and a visit to the doctor may be a good idea, especially the leftist women who get more hysterical by the minute.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/04/when_do_we_call_them_crazy.html
