Our time is epic, but life is sometimes a cartoon. As if America were wrong, the deranged left cannot drop their obsession. They ignore the Constitution and the popular vote. Like Wile E. Coyote, they give the Road Runner no peace. He wins anyway. Welcome to the world of anti-Trump obsession.  

There is something sadly wrong with those who deny democracy and will of the majority – Hispanic, black, white, old, young, women, men – who voted for Trump-Vance. This would be mildly entertaining if it were playacting or rabble-rousers, adolescent mooners of the process, or immature bottle throwers. It is not.  

These are adults – or people who should be acting like adults at this age. They should be rational, familiar with losing, know how to respect others’ views and have internal balance. Disappointment, simply losing, should be manageable.  

For this crowd, it is not. Colleges indulge weak-minded students, serve milk and cookies, host “cry-ins,” and offer grief counseling to near-adults, the age of those who won WWII. They are creating weaker people, disrespect for rules, history, and laws, and losing. Hollywood actors are having baby fits, and deserve timeout.   

The histrionics, end-of-the-world talk television show hosts have become poster children for immaturity and too much candy as kids. They embarrass themselves and do not even see it. Pretend news anchors cry in their soup, blather about coming horrors, “concentration camps,” “Hitler,” decoupled from reality. 

The truth is, half the country, or perhaps a quarter, is ill. They wander in their cultivated delusions, concerned to defend their fiction and deny reality.  

Missing is a “snap out of it” from a mature friend, parent, grandparent, or real adult, who is willing to say the truth. We are not at the end times, not in a world where Trump is Hitler, or anything like it. We are in America. Wake up!  

So, what is really happening? While we hope reality smartens people up and causes them to pipe down and regain their footing, it seems some Americans are not yet right.  

To those who see the world as it is, this phenomenon is worrisome and creates concern for these people, their mental state, anxiety over nothing, and inability to reason.  

Mental obsession, individually or in a group – “group think”– is a clinical condition. It is a real issue, and it can be encouraged or discouraged.  

Modern society is filled with things that encourage obsession, anxiety, and imbalance, sources of stress from social media, texting, 24-hour pseudo-news, and go-go peer pressure to crisis alerts. Even among those who know better, people default to worry, forgetting the ways of our parents and grandparents.  

The result is high cortisol levels, and unmanageable spikes in worry, fear, doubt, doomsday thinking, anxiety, depression, and paranoia. The natural tendency is to attribute this to something outside ourselves, like politics.  

Technically, obsession is a “persistent disturbing preoccupation with an often unreasonable idea or feeling,” or inability to “control of one’s thoughts,” or “a persistent …impulse … often associated with … mental illness,” or if “someone thinks about someone or something constantly or frequently…not normal.”  

Jumping from the clinical to fiction, the Wicked Witch of the West was obsessed with Dorothy’s ruby slippers, Captain Ahab with killing a whale named Moby Dick, or recall Quasimodo’s unrequited love for Esmerelda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and – drumroll! – Wile E. Coyote’s obsession with the Road Runner.   

Welcome to the world of leftwing Democrats, so like the world of the Wicked Woke Witch, Ahab, and Wile E. Coyote, caught in their doom loops, only able to get their daily fix of bias from their media bias dealers and walk around in a political stupor, high in hate-hype. 

The real question, at this point: How many Democrats can break from the obsession, escape the collective fiction, and restore themselves to normal – and how many will continue on, in Wile E. Coyote mode, trying to stop the Road Runner? Our time is epic, but life is sometimes a cartoon.  

Robert Charles is a former Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell, former Reagan and Bush 41 White House staffer, attorney, and naval intelligence officer (USNR). He wrote “Narcotics and Terrorism” (2003), “Eagles and Evergreens” (2018), and is National Spokesman for AMAC.