The Democratic Party has moved too far to the left.

[Dill]

(12-02-2019, 01:07 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: The divide, to me, is that people who criticize Trump (in my totally biased and therefore meaningless opinion) are, generally, being rational. 

It is not normal to, as President, call people losers and haters on Twitter. 
It is not normal to use Twitter to announce official political business, especially when there is often no follow up on said tweets.
It is not normal to normalize racism and sexism (whether you personally are racist or sexist is not relevant) with your outbursts at people like AOC and Ilhan Omar. 
It is not normal to blatantly lie at an unprecedented rate about simple and complicated things. 
It is not normal to condemn virtually all media simply because they are reporting things you say and do. 
It is not normal to slur, mispronounce and make up words during multiple speeches over the course of your presidency. 
It is not normal to act like a narcissist. 
It is not normal to call for the imprisonment of your political rivals when no charges have been levied against them, outside of easily debunked conspiracy theories. 
It is not normal to alter weather maps just so that you don't have to admit that you tweeted a warning to a state in error. 
It is not normal to ask other countries to investigate your political rivals, either on personal phone calls with the President of that country (like he did with Ukraine) or just during a speech or press conference (like he did with China and Russia).

It is not normal to defend these things.

So which group is the one "Suffering from a disease?"

Very much agreed with you on this partial listing of Trump bad behavior.  NOT NORMAL.

So the problem is why so many not only accept this degraded and abnormal behavior, but idolize the source.

Some may be in denial or various states of rationalization ("different" style of governing), but others are full on ok with breaking stuff, as long as its government, "leftists," feminists, and foreign policy (Globalists!).  Also, many would (irrationally) dispute items of your list ("Read the transcript"). 

Trump defenders (not "supporters") don't idolize Trump and claim they don't support him, but their political identity demands a "never-'the-Left'" stance. When forced to choose between publicly and consistently criticizing Trump for the actions you list above, or publicly criticizing "the left" for criticizing those actions, they have to choose the latter. That contributes as much to normalizing Trump behavior as the avid support of Trump supporters.

Whatever measuring stick Trump supporters/defenders are using to measure presidents is broken--or tilted much farther rightward than previously suspected. E.g., who disapproves of or at least consistently under rates the President who led the War of Northern Aggression?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/new-poll-shows-majority-of-republicans-think-donald-trump-is-a-better-president-than-abraham-lincoln/vi-BBXCAoU
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-say-trump-is-a-better-president-than-lincoln-919915/

(This neo-confederate tendency would not apply to all the 4Chan nihilists who support Trump or many of coal miners and blue collar laborers who genuinely thought Trump would have their back, or some of the anti-Globalists.)