quasi Report This Comment
Date: March 19, 2025 10:51AM

Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge

"On March 17, 2025, five Minnesota Republicans staggered into the statehouse like a pack of half-bright jackals, grinning like they’d just cooked up something clever. They weren’t there to solve real problems or offer meaningful policy. They weren’t interested in improving Minnesota’s economy, helping families afford healthcare, or tackling the opioid crisis. No, these five geniuses decided their best use of time was to introduce a bill declaring Trump Derangement Syndrome a recognized mental illness — a desperate, juvenile stunt designed to insult critics of Donald Trump.
The bill was trash. It described TDS as a condition marked by paranoia, social dysfunction, and emotional instability. It claimed Trump’s critics were so consumed by rage that they couldn’t distinguish between “legitimate policy” and “psychic pathology.” In short, these five clowns cooked up a fake disorder to gaslight anyone who dared to criticize their orange messiah.
But karma works fast. By sundown, the bill’s loudest cheerleader, Senator Justin Eichorn, was being marched into a Bloomington jail cell after allegedly soliciting a minor for prostitution.
Eichorn’s downfall wasn’t just bad timing — it was cosmic retribution. The man who spent his morning diagnosing his political enemies as unstable spent his evening in handcuffs, accused of behavior so grotesque that even his fellow Republicans couldn’t spin it away. According to police, Eichorn thought he was arranging a meetup with a 17-year-old girl. Instead, he found himself caught in a sting operation, locked up “without incident.”
The irony wasn’t subtle. The man who had tried to smear half the state as mentally ill turned out to be the only one unfit to walk free that evening. The man who spent the morning pointing fingers ended the night with both hands cuffed behind his back.
His co-sponsors — Eric Lucero, Steve Drazkowski, Nathan Wesenberg, and Glenn Gruenhagen — wasted no time pretending they had nothing to do with him. The same men who stood shoulder to shoulder with Eichorn that morning now scurried for cover, releasing statements condemning him and demanding his resignation. It was a coward’s stampede — a pack of spineless opportunists ditching their own teammate the moment he became a liability.
But don’t let the rest of these goons off the hook. Lucero, Drazkowski, Wesenberg, and Gruenhagen may not have been arrested that night, but they were right there with Eichorn, peddling the same garbage. They signed their names to a bill that mocked mental health, insulted political dissent, and pretended that loyalty to Donald Trump was the gold standard for sanity. They chose to humiliate themselves — Eichorn just managed to do it more efficiently.
The TDS bill wasn’t just a joke — it was an admission of defeat. These men are so consumed by grievance politics that they’ve stopped pretending to govern. They aren’t lawmakers; they’re agitators in suits, obsessed with trolling their opponents instead of serving their constituents. They were elected to improve Minnesota — instead, they spent their day writing a fake disorder to defend a man who doesn’t even know their names.
Eichorn’s arrest wasn’t an accident. It wasn’t bad luck. It was the inevitable result of a movement built on self-righteous frauds who shout about morality while drowning in their own filth. For years, the MAGA crowd has shrieked that Trump’s critics are “mentally ill,” “unhinged,” and “deranged.” But when the day was over, it wasn’t the critics being stuffed into a squad car — it was one of their own.
The Minnesota GOP tried to brand Trump’s critics as unstable, yet the only one rotting in a jail cell this week is the man who helped write the bill. That’s not irony — that’s a punchline.
Justin Eichorn spent his morning calling other people deranged. By nightfall, he was the one sitting in a cell, wondering how everything had gone so horribly wrong. If there’s one thing Eichorn’s arrest proves, it’s this: the true sickness isn’t Trump Derangement Syndrome — it’s the madness that infects every politician willing to humiliate themselves for Donald J. Trump."